A sci-fi adventure novelette of space medicine, mercenaries and machines.

The ship's doctors are a new class of professional, medicos with implanted intuition for the organic mega-spacestations of the future. It's an ability that comes with consequences: for this Doctor, a compulsion to which she is a virtual slave.

Still, this should have been an easy job: just a trip to the furthest-flung blue-class station for a basic malfunction. But instead, the Doctor finds situation critical: a dead colleague, an infected core and Riley, a grafted flight engineer who knows something about her past. The station is quarantined, but in the midst of the drama, a mercenary band the Doctor has unwittingly assisted stages a coup, which threatens to spread the infection across the verse. The Doctor and Riley must stop the contagion, but to do it, the Doctor crosses a boundary that might be the end for her. Will she make it out? Or will she sacrifice all for the station?

Originally published in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine and now re-released.