Candor Greaves is a space salvager, earning a living scouring the dangerous solar corridor for salable material. After the accidental death of their crew's navigator, the open position is filled by Laurie Estrel: a bright-eyed and bushy-tailed greenhorn straight out of trade college.

Laurie's arrival threatens to jeopardize Candor's plans to escape the salvager life, but Laurie has dangerous secrets of her own. Her first task as navigator is to steer the crew to a strange, hulking wreck invisible to company scanners, where an inexplicable terror awaits. There, the crew must try to set aside their secrets and their old regrets in a desperate struggle for survival.