For fans of fast-paced adventure and compelling characters, the
military science fiction of Nebula Award--winning author Elizabeth
Moon is the perfect choice.
The brilliantly unorthodox Kylara Vatta, black-sheep scion of Vatta
Transport Ltd., one of the galaxy's wealthiest merchant houses, is
a heroine like no other, blessed with a killer instinct for
business and for battle. Now, in the aftermath of cold-blooded
assassinations that have left her parents dead and the Vatta
shipping empire shattered, Kylara faces her greatest challenge yet.
There is a time for grief and a time for revenge. This is decidedly
the latter. Placing her cousin Stella in command of the trading
vessel Gary Tobai, Ky embarks aboard the captured pirate ship Fair
Kaleen on a twofold mission: to salvage the family business and to
punish those responsible for the killings . . . before they strike
again.
Since the network providing instantaneous communication between
star systems has been sabotaged, news is hard to come by and
available information impossible to trust. But as she travels from
system to system, with Stella a step behind, Ky pieces together the
clues and discovers a conspiracy of terrifying scope, breathtaking
audacity, and utter ruthlessness.
The only hope the independent systems and merchants have against
this powerful enemy is to band together. Unfortunately, because she
commands a ship known to belong to a notorious pirate-her own
relative Osman Vatta, whom she killed for his part in her parents'
deaths-Ky is met with suspicion, if not outright hostility. Rumors
swirl about her intent, her very identity. Soon even Stella begins
to question her cousin's decisions and her authority to make them.
Meanwhile, the conspiracy Ky hunts is hunting her in turn, with
agents insinuated into every space station, every planetary
government, every arm of the military, and every merchant
house-including her own. Before she can take the fight to the
enemy, Kylara must survive a deadly minefield of deception and
betrayal.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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