If you're a Redeemer, what do you do when the Black Mass threatens your home? You hold an innocent planet hostage to incentivize Captain Calhoun to take action on your behalf. And in the background the reader gets to enjoy a teenage love affair where the parental figure disapproves, and some more love story development for both soap opera pairings (the parted lovers who still work together, and the couple who created a kid but not an ongoing commitment).

One of the more entertaining and self-contained stories in this universe so far, though completely whacky as usual. The highlight of this book for me was the silly Redeemer voices we've been using as part of reading it aloud. (They're a short race, so the Knights Who Say Ni voices struck me as ideal, and I'll defend that choice even while doubled over in hysterics listening to these menacing figures pontificate.) ( )