Trading in Danger-Fast Shipping

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“Filled with fast-paced action and well-conceived characters.”—Booklist

Kylara Vatta is the only daughter in a family full of sons, and her father’s onlychild to buck tradition by choosing a military career instead of joining the familybusiness. For Ky, it’s no contest: Even running the prestigious Vatta Transport concern can’t hold a candle to shipping out as an officer aboard an interstellarcruiser. It’s adventure, not commerce, that stirs her soul. And despite her family’smisgivings, there can be no doubt that a Vatta in the service will prove a valuableasset. But with a single error in judgment, it all comes crumbling down.

Expelledfrom the Academy in disgrace–and returning home to her humiliated family, a stormof high-profile media coverage, and the gaping void of her own future–Ky is readyto face the inevitable onslaught of anger, disappointment, even pity. But soon afteropportunity’s door slams shut, Ky finds herself with a ticket to ride– and a shotat redemption–as captain of a Vatta Transport ship.

It’s a simple assignment: escortingone of the Vatta fleet’s oldest ships on its final voyage . . . to the keeping it simple has never been Ky’s style. And even though her father has provideda crew of seasoned veterans to baby-sit the fledgling captain on her maiden milkrun, they can’t stop Ky from turning the routine mission into a risky venture–inthe name of turning a profit for Vatta Transport, of course.

By snapping up a lucrativedelivery contract defaulted on by a rival company, and using part of the proceedsto upgrade her condemned vehicle, Ky aims to prove she’s got more going for her thanjust her family’s famous name. But business will soon have to take a backseat tobravery, when Ky’s change of plans sails her and the crew straight into the middleof a colonial war. For all her commercial savvy, it’s her military training and born-soldier’sinstincts that Ky will need to call on in the face of deadly combat, dangerous mercenaries,and violent mutiny. . . .

“Compelling . . . a superior novel . . . Trading in Danger [has] originality and intelligence.”—SciFi