Oh my God, is this a stupid book! Needless to say, I didn't get very far in it before giving up and putting it aside. The protagonist is a dumbass and, frankly, it seems that all of the characters in this book are morons. I don't know why the author chose to write them that way, but it makes them all quite unlikable from the beginning, so it seems like a bad idea to me. Kayla is an empath who comes up with the bright idea of becoming a prisoner to be put on board a prison ship to contact another prisoner who owns and knows the location of a valuable jewel -- like she would give it up??? -- so that she could get that information and then use her empath abilities to contact her shipmates who would swoop in on the prison ship and save her. Except that the guards use drugs on her, which dulls her abilities to use her empath skills. Etc. Also, the dialogue in this book is quite bad. The scenarios are stupid. And Kayla is part of a "legal" smuggler ship that is now an "illegal" pirate that boards a freighter. With three people in its boarding party. To fight five people on the freighter. Now I admit that I've been reading too much David Weber over the past couple of years, so I'm sure my views are pretty skewed, but his freighters always have something 300, 400, 500 personnel or more. Five? Really? When freighters are boarded in his books, it's usually a company of armored battle Marines with pulsar rifles. Three people? Really? And then these three people transfer the contents of the freighter to their ship somehow? Right. Like I said, stupid. I hate stupid sci fi authors. And there are so many of them. I'm sure not going to read Haber again. Not recommended. ( )