
“I said to you, Captain, Victorious Dead is in slip five. He got enough air to choke out a few words. His left arm twitched out and tugged futilely at her hand. More orange slime dripped down the wall behind Skrankle. The dark blue patches covering his red fleshy cheeks couldn’t bode well for his continued survival. Skrankle was getting to share all of her feelings first hand and wasn’t faring well from it. Worry was a stranger and she liked it that way. Her gut knotted up as worry and anger fought inside her. Now this whimpering scumbag had destroyed that.

All she wanted in life was her ship, her crew, and a good fight.

Damn it! If he ruined her second favorite pair of boots, she was going to do more than choke him-providing the smell that came along with the slime didn’t suffocate her first.

The putrid orange slime he oozed in self-defense crept toward her feet and she stepped sideways. “Where the hell is my ship, Skrankle?” Captain Vaslisha Tor Dain slammed the salvage dealer against the peeling office wall and pressed hard on his neck. * BingeBooks earns revenue from qualifying purchases as an Amazon Associate as well as from other retail partners. Vas has to fight her crew, the Commonwealth, and a mysterious cadre of warrior monks to get her ship back and save a universe that may not want to be saved. In addition, there are unmarked ships blowing apart entire planets and the Commonwealth government can't, or won't, stop them.

Her beloved ship, The Victorious Dead, has been sold for scrap and its pieces scattered throughout the galaxy. Vas's life takes a turn for the worse when she comes back to her crew after what should have been a two week pleasure trip to find out she's actually been gone a month and has no memory of missing time. Vaslisha Tor Dain is a mercenary starship captain with a few simple rules: A good ship is better than a great man, in case of confusion always err on the side of blowing someone's head off, and never fall for a telepath or a member of her crew.Īll of those are about to bite her in the behind.
