Synopsis: From the front flap of the HarperCollins first edition: "Space Captain Tabitha Jute is the hero of the solar system. She has defeated the Capellan overlords and liberated the gigantic alien spaceship known as Plenty. Now she and her friends have to get out of the system. And quickly. So begins the first human voyage to another star - a journey that will take the strange ship and a motley complement of refugees and villains deep into unknown reaches of time and space. Tabitha's triumph will be short-lived. Her artificial workmate Alice is no longer the humble ship's persona she once knew and loved. Amid rumbles of violence and threats of mutiny, people are starting to disappear. And just who is the dark-haired saboteurs in the long black coat? In the cavernous, honeycombed depths of Plenty, nothing is as it seems..."