Skeleton Crew (The Kanti Cycle) (Volume 1)

A slave raised believing himself free, a criminal even before his birth. Everyone thinks Kanti is someone he isn't: a playboy reduced to working at the dump, a spiteful son trying to make amends, and perhaps even an excuse to recycle every last officer, crewman, and cub on board. However, this unlikely hero and the rest of the crew are in for a wild ride to the brink of mutiny, isolated deep in space, some 1,500 light years from home. When the sinister Commissioner Sarsuk starts tightening restrictions on birth tokens for the geroo colony, Kanti is forced to make decisions about his identity...and his place in the colony he hopes to always call home, even if at the risk of family, friends, and love.