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Cynical and quick-on-the-trigger Jane Shepard, Alliance Marine turned Spectre, has long since gotten used to the consequences of the immutable reputation Torfan left her with. One of only a dozen humans skilled enough to attain Spectre status in the near two hundred years that humanity has been involved in the galactic community, she is used to the violence, infamy, and collateral damage that follows her from one assignment to the next.
Then Matriarch Benezia T’Soni sends her a request, asking her to investigate a murder: her own. The authorities call it a suicide, and Shepard is left a trail leading to Illium, Benezia’s estranged daughter Liara, and a fragment of evidence from Torfan that Shepard has never seen before.
What begins as an investigation into one matriarch’s death soon pulls Shepard into the buried secrets of one of the galaxy’s most powerful families, and towards a woman she has every reason not to trust.
For the first time in years, Shepard has found something she can’t simply shoot her way through.