Liddi Jantzen has lived her whole life in the spotlight.  The youngest of the Jantzen siblings and the heir to the Jantzen technology company, Liddi has always felt inadequate compared to her brothers.  When masked men break into her home, she assumes that they’re the typical papazzi.  At least until they start shooting.  Liddi’s escape reveals her brothers are missing, and a betrayal from someone she trusted leaves her implanted with a device that could kill her brothers if she speaks.  Which means even when […]

Essie has been scraping by in the frozen mining communities of Thanda with her talent for “stitching” computer programs and winning fights.  When an offworld shuttle crashes nearby, Essie finds herself both working on repairs and establishing a tentative friendship with the pilot, Dane.  But Dane brings with him connections to the past that Essie ran from years ago.  Forced to confront both her past as well as choices about what sort of future she wants, Essie will have to decide who she trusts and […]