He looked like a gentleman, not a bounty hunter, and that had allowed him to get close enough to grab me. The captain was a handsome man, older, with gray at the temples of his dark hair. That blow had been more skill than luck, but not enough to save me. He’d have a shiner by tomorrow, thanks to me. The skin around his left eye was fiercely red. The ship’s captain stood back while the merc crew tried to wrestle me farther into the ship. He was young for commander, but mercs weren’t known to have long lives. He wasn’t the ship’s captain, so he must be the mercenary commander. He climbed to his feet and waved his stunstick as if I needed a visual reminder. “Stop fighting, you little bitch, or I’ll stun you again,” the blond warned. My self-defense tutor had warned me that one day I would regret slacking off in lessons-turns out, she was right. I was a decently strong woman, but they each outweighed me by fifty or more pounds and the physics just weren’t on my side.
I planted my feet and pushed back as hard as I could. The blow had been more luck than skill, but it was enough to make the fourth mercenary pause before trying to grab my legs again. He went down with a curse, but the two men holding my arms didn’t release me, even as I struggled in their grasp. The steel toe of my boot slammed into the blond merc’s knee with a satisfying crunch. Her only hope is to strike a deal with the dangerous fugitive: a fortune if he helps her escape.īut when you make a deal with an irresistibly attractive Devil, you may lose more than you bargained for. When the ship returning them to Earth is attacked by a battle cruiser from rival House Rockhurst, Ada realizes that if her jilted fiancé captures her, she’ll become a political prisoner and a liability to her House. Known as the Devil of Fornax Zero, Loch is rumored to have killed his entire chain of command during the Fornax Rebellion, and the Consortium wants his head. To ensure she cannot escape again, the fiery princess is thrown into a prison cell with Marcus Loch. The spirited princess flees before the betrothal ceremony and disappears among the stars.Īda eluded her father’s forces for two years, but now her luck has run out. When her father arranges for her to wed a noble from House Rockhurst, a man she neither wants nor loves, Ada seizes control of her own destiny. As the fifth of six children, Ada von Hasenberg has no authority her only value to her High House is as a pawn in a political marriage. In the far distant future, the universe is officially ruled by the Royal Consortium, but the High Councillors, the heads of the three High Houses, wield the true power. A space princess on the run and a notorious outlaw soldier become unlikely allies in this imaginative, sexy space opera adventure-the first in an exciting science fiction trilogy.
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