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Kylara Vatta, risk-taking, rule-breaking, can-do heroine of Trading in peril, is back in business–the type that’s anything but usual–in the new armed service science fiction trip by ace action storyteller Elizabeth Moon.
The enjoyable military career she hoped for never got off the surface–but Ky Vatta finished up seeing plenty of combat when she took the helm of one of the commercial transportation vessels in her family’s fleet . . . and steered it into a full-blown battle. Now the lessons she learned for the reason that trial by flame are going to pay back: because this time, the battle has come to her. To be exact, someone unknown has launched a full-throttle offensive against Vatta Transfer Ltd., Ky’s daddy’s interstellar transport empire. Promptly, almost all of Ky’s family is wiped out, and subsequent attacks sever vital lines of communication, departing Ky fighting, in every sense, to survive.
Determined to recognize the ruthless secret enemy and avenge her family’s name, Ky needs not only firepower but information. And she gets both in spades–from the group of stranded mercenaries she hooks up with, from her black-sheep cousin, Stella, who’s been leading a key life, and from Stella’s roguish ex-lover, Rafe. Together they battle to penetrate the tangled web of political intrigue that’s wreaking havoc within InterStellar Communications, whose effective procedure their own livelihoods–as well as perhaps lives–count on.
But the infighting proves to be infectious, and it isn’t a long time before Ky’s appointed armed service muscle are turning their suspicions on the enigmatic Rafe, whose riches of understanding of ISC’s clashing factions and startling new technologies has started to make him smell like a rat . . . or a mole. With swift, violent devastation a very real probability, the very last thing Ky needs is a team divided against itself–and she’s prepared to take whatever measures are essential to ensure that Vatta stays on in business, as well as without trouble.
What she’s not well prepared for is the surprising truth behind the terror– and a confrontation with murderous treachery from a source as unexpected as it is unrelenting.
