Junker Blues

Marcus Redding is a junkologist living on the boundary between the Belt and Mars, hunting for tech from ships of the Pre-Crawl days. Harboring a secret and a chip on his shoulder the size of Deimos, he prefers to be alone. Yet, with his new partner Lashiel, an Ilas hybrid, he has found something that will make him very rich or make him very dead.

Spinning away from Mars was not what Marcus thought would be the best part of his day. Coming out of his escape, he finds an enemy waiting in the wings of his ship that he has to make a deal with, a commune that has some interesting customs, a colony of Alters, and even an old "friend" who helped him escape his Eridani overlord. But, his friend cashes in that chip. He wants Marcus to help lure a mutual friend named Lash into the Belt and set up a trap using a Judas Contract.