Outside the safety of Overlook City, the jungle waits. A young private security worker named Wes Jackson accepts his first contract beyond the domed city, setting out on an expedition through the sprawling jungles of the planet Surface. He and his new companions are on an odd, but lucrative mission: they want to harvest a batch of intoxicating honey made by a species of giant wasp. Then, things start to get strange...

Cut off from everything she knows, Bee must face a terrifying new reality far beyond the edge of civilization. Without the help of Captain Anson or his crew, she'll have to make her own way forward against new enemies and unknown challenges. If she wants to survive, Bee will have to navigate treacherous rivalries, decades-long pirate feuds, and find the secret to a hidden treasure among the stars.

Set after the postwar collapse of an interstellar empire, a young orphan girl embarks on a quest for violent retribution. Six years old when her mother was killed, Buttercup endured an unforgiving adolescence on the streets of her home city. She's scraped by ever since, always searching for the man responsible, knowing one day she'll find him.