As the war draws closer to home, the cadets of the United Galactic Forces have a lot of growing up to do. In their fourth year, the cadets set their course for Kax's homeworld of Catillion, where Perry's botanical genius paves their way into an organic weapons development program that could change the course of the war. But along with their growing achievements, the cadets face tougher challenges and harder choices than ever before. When Perry's studies take him straight into the tutelage of a genocidal madman, he is forced to question the hidden price of his forbidden knowledge. Kax's deep-space pilot training brings her trouble on the ground, when a toxic affair with her flight instructor endangers her life and her career. For Skyler, shipping out to a strange new world means exactly what he hoped it would: untold opportunities with the ladies! But even for him, the stakes are raised when Kax's own sister gives him the attention she has long denied him-and a chance encounter with another cadet turns his cocky self-image as Earth's pre-eminent ladies' man on its head. Hearts will break and sparks will fly in this thrilling fourth instalment of the Starchasers saga.