Lauren Silva and Jack Gill were in the quiet rural farming community of Alva on Lothian world in the Rim. A beautiful morning they had spent together walking among the cherry blossoms. Then the gunships arrived overhead. A whirl wind adventure had started, one that would take them to the stars and other worlds in the Rim Systems. They would discover the Imperium's conspiracy. It had started with the assassination of Lauren's old professor, Daniels. Professor Daniels and Lauren had worked together on an AI research project a decade ago. Lauren and Jack would never have dreamed where the coming months would take them. What they would become embroiled in, or how The Peregrine would become part of their lives, or their life altering meeting with Merlin. Could they break out and get away from the Imperium?