Padma Mehta is the proud owner of Old Windswept… and working in the sewers to pay off the unfortunate incident with the orbital lifter. She’s as prickly as ever, but she’s happy – until her distillery manager tells her the staff have stopped showing up to work, and the Union President asks her to avert a planet-wide strike…

Padma Mehta needs to recruit 33 more people to the Union and claim the signing bonus if she’s to buy the Old Windswept distillery. When an opportunity comes by that would put her over the line, she can’t pass it up, even if it is put her way by smelly loser Vytai Bloombeck. Padma’s forgotten that if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is. The next few days will test what she’s really willing to do to make her numbers – and save her planet.