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Montgomery Hale is seventeen, broke, and about to commit the biggest fraud of his life. He's spent years fixing machines on a backwater space station, saving every credit for a fleet academy education he'll never afford. When a last-minute vacancy opens on the Union's flagship, he does the only thing a desperate kid with a talent for forging documents would do. He fakes his way aboard.

Montgomery Hale is an ensign now. For real, almost. He's on the primary helm rotation. The captain trusts him. He flew the corridor mission and he didn't get caught. After a year of waiting for someone to figure out his academy record was forged on a rented terminal when he was sixteen, he's finally relaxing into the job. That's when things get bad.

Montgomery Hale ist siebzehn, pleite und im Begriff, den größten Betrug seines Lebens zu begehen. Jahrelang hat er auf einer abgelegenen Raumstation Maschinen repariert und jeden Credit gespart–für eine Ausbildung an der Flottenakademie, die er sich nie wird leisten können. Als auf dem Flaggschiff der Union in letzter Minute ein Platz frei wird, tut er das Einzige, was ein verzweifelter Junge mit einem Talent fürs Fälschen von Dokumenten tun würde.