The Orion the Hunter series takes place hundreds of years in mankind's future, in a time just after a great interplanetary war. Orion belongs to an elite force tasked with bringing to justice the smugglers, black-marketers, and other war criminals running wild on the fringe worlds. Orion's adventures take him across many worlds and put him face to face with the worst of humanity and its alien allies. The wounds of war are still seeping, the racism and bigotry are still raw, but Orion is one of the beacons of hope despite his personal darkness. In this full-length novel, Orion returns to the world of his birth to fulfill an oath. An oath he made as he grew into manhood in the internment camps of the great war. An oath was sworn on the blood of a dead family. An oath that may leave his homeworld a dead husk by the time he is done.