Series: Book 1 in the Novels series
Rating: Not rated
Tags: EN-SciFi, Lang:en
Summary
Out in the darkness of space, something is targeting the
Greatships. With their vast cargo holds and a crew that could
fill a city, the Greatships are the lifeblood of human occupied
space, transporting an unimaginable volume - and value - of
goods from City, the greatest human orbital, all the way to
Tradepoint at the other, to trade for xenoglas with an
unknowable alien species. It has always been Marca Nbaro's
dream to achieve the near-impossible: escape her upbringing and
venture into space. All it took, to make her way onto the crew
of the Greatship Athens was thousands of hours in simulators,
dedication, and pawning or selling every scrap of her old life
in order to forge a new one. But though she's made her way
onboard with faked papers, leaving her old life - and scandals
- behind isn't so easy. She may have just combined all the
dangers of her former life, with all the perils of the new . .
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