"Former labor organiser Padma's worst nightmare has come true: just when she had settled down to a well-earned early retirement running her beloved rum distillery, she's been dragged right back into the firing line. She thought she'd heard the last of her arch nemesis, Evanrute Saarien too. But Saarien, fresh out of prison for his misdeeds in Windswept, has created a sinister new religion, with himself as its divine leader. He's telling his congregation to put down tools and go on strike, to fight the system. And unfortunately, they're listening to him. Now Padma's been summoned by the Union president to smash the strike from happening. The problem is, the more she digs into just what is going on on her planet, the more she realises this whole strike business is more complicated than the Union president has let on..." -- Page [4] cover.