But the vast difference between their individual motives may send their smoldering romance up in flames.Īn independent woman with powerful self-knowledge, Ada’s story is free of “rescued princess” tropes that can diminish a space opera. In their quest for answers, the revelation of a shared enemy in their pursuer binds Ada and Loch closer. The pair’s path to freedom evolves as they struggle to unravel the tech’s mysteries before the Consortium erupts into war. Sprinting from planet to planet on stolen transports as they scrabble for resources and allies, Ada and Loch accidentally discover technology that rival Houses would kill to possess.
Despite an instant physical attraction between them, Ada fears she’s hitching her getaway hopes on a killer, and Loch knows his escape might be complicated by the company of this tempting fugitive scion. United by the knowledge that they each face a different kind of doom, they combine talents in a dangerous bid for freedom.
Notorious across the systems as the Devil of Fornax Zero, her cellmate Marcus Loch represents both certain danger and potential salvation.
In the dark confines of her captors’ brig, Ada finds her last chance to escape may be hanging in chains on the opposite wall. But even with the skills and resources she’s acquired as a fugitive among the stars, her father’s enormous bounty for her capture has finally brought Ada to heel.
As the fifth daughter of one of the vast Consortium’s most powerful Houses, she’s managed to survive for two years on the run from her fate as a political pawn destined for a strategic marriage. After being violently apprehended by mercenaries, Ada von Hasenberg’s mind is already sorting through her options for escape as she’s dragged along spaceship corridors toward an uncertain end.
0 kommentar(er)
