Delia and Angelina may be the best fighter pilots in the Wardelian League but after a little incident on Antelika they're taking an enforced holiday on the cowboy planet. Lina is happy to find a man to warm her bunk for the night but Delia wants more. More, as in Jude Roland, the bounty hunter she'd met on Tristar 234.

He does find her and kidnaps her, taking Delia back to his ship, the Renegade. She wakes in his cabin and the two are drawn into a night of rich pleasures but Jude is torn between his feelings for her and the part she must unknowingly play in his plan to rescue Toryn, his navigator.

Toryn and Jude have been lovers off and on but Jude wants Delia to be part of their relationship too. Can he rescue Toryn from the Redelian leader and still have Delia? No one could have anticipated Jude's plan.