A planet-eating plague. A hustler-turned-hero. Time is running out . . .Orry Kent just wants a quiet life - but even a little R&R on the holiday planet of Halcyon turns wild when she accidentally sparks off a revolution amongst the downtrodden native workers. But that''s small beer compared with the news footage being broadcast across the Ascendancy, showing Orry murdering the man she saved just six months earlier and destroying the Halstaad-Mirnov Institute, the heart of research into the aeons-dead alien race called The Departed. ''Dulley has made an amazing universe and I can''t wait to explore more of it'' Words of a PaigeWith her brother Ethan, the irascible spacedog Captain Mender and his intelligent spaceship Dainty Jane, not to mention the Kadiran exile Quondam, she sets off to prove her innocence. It''s just a shame that means teaming up with the woman she loathes more than anyone else in any universe: the space pirate and criminal mastermind Cordelia Roag.''Big-screen space opera at its most entertaining; Orry Kent makes for an engaging and savvy protagonist'' Gavin Smith, author of The Bastard Legion For it''s not just Orry''s freedom at stake now: a long-dormant planet-eating plague has been triggered and there''s only one thing that can stop it.The race is on . . .

A shattered moon. A secret plan. Last girl standing.Orry and her family are the best conmen in the Quadrant, running elaborate heists to target the ruling families of the Ascendancy. This time should be no different . . . but then Orry goes off-script and everything falls apart. Less than an hour later her mark is dead and she''s on the run, accused of a murder she didn''t commit. Turns out, the pendant Orry stole is more valuable than even she guessed - and a lot of powerful people want it. When she''s unexpectedly rescued by loner spaceship captain Jurgen Mender, Orry knows there''s only one thing to do. Even Orry can see the madness of pitting an inexperienced grifter, a space-dog well past his prime and an obsolete spaceship against the Imperial Fleet, the worst of the space pirates and the alien Kadiran, who are getting bored with their uneasy truce with humankind . . . But what other choice does she have?

An alien exile. A lethal secret. The hunt is on . . .

Orry Kent may not have stopped the war between the Ascendancy and the alien Kadiran, but at least she saved the Grand Fleet from annihilation. Now she just wants to get on with her own life - until a con turns sour and a dying agent of the emperor''s Seventh Secretariat tells Orry there''s a traitor at the highest levels of the Ascendancy. Which is why she finds herself stranded among the floating bubble habitats of Morhelion, searching for a Kadiran exile who has information critical to the war effort - and the survival of the Ascendancy itself. ''A satisfyingly convoluted plot that sorts out a lot of loose ends but leaves more things lined up for a further book. It''s a great read for fans of space opera and criminal capers'' SF Crowsnest

A planet-eating plague. A hustler-turned-hero. Time is running out . . .Orry Kent just wants a quiet life - but even a little R&R on the holiday planet of Halcyon turns wild when she accidentally sparks off a revolution amongst the downtrodden native workers. But that''s small beer compared with the news footage being broadcast across the Ascendancy, showing Orry murdering the man she saved just six months earlier and destroying the Halstaad-Mirnov Institute, the heart of research into the aeons-dead alien race called The Departed. ''Dulley has made an amazing universe and I can''t wait to explore more of it'' Words of a PaigeWith her brother Ethan, the irascible spacedog Captain Mender and his intelligent spaceship Dainty Jane, not to mention the Kadiran exile Quondam, she sets off to prove her innocence. It''s just a shame that means teaming up with the woman she loathes more than anyone else in any universe: the space pirate and criminal mastermind Cordelia Roag.''Big-screen space opera at its most entertaining; Orry Kent makes for an engaging and savvy protagonist'' Gavin Smith, author of The Bastard Legion For it''s not just Orry''s freedom at stake now: a long-dormant planet-eating plague has been triggered and there''s only one thing that can stop it.The race is on . . .

A shattered moon. A secret plan. Last girl standing.Orry and her family are the best conmen in the Quadrant, running elaborate heists to target the ruling families of the Ascendancy. This time should be no different . . . but then Orry goes off-script and everything falls apart. Less than an hour later her mark is dead and she''s on the run, accused of a murder she didn''t commit. Turns out, the pendant Orry stole is more valuable than even she guessed - and a lot of powerful people want it. When she''s unexpectedly rescued by loner spaceship captain Jurgen Mender, Orry knows there''s only one thing to do. Even Orry can see the madness of pitting an inexperienced grifter, a space-dog well past his prime and an obsolete spaceship against the Imperial Fleet, the worst of the space pirates and the alien Kadiran, who are getting bored with their uneasy truce with humankind . . . But what other choice does she have?

An alien exile. A lethal secret. The hunt is on . . .

Orry Kent may not have stopped the war between the Ascendancy and the alien Kadiran, but at least she saved the Grand Fleet from annihilation. Now she just wants to get on with her own life - until a con turns sour and a dying agent of the emperor''s Seventh Secretariat tells Orry there''s a traitor at the highest levels of the Ascendancy. Which is why she finds herself stranded among the floating bubble habitats of Morhelion, searching for a Kadiran exile who has information critical to the war effort - and the survival of the Ascendancy itself. ''A satisfyingly convoluted plot that sorts out a lot of loose ends but leaves more things lined up for a further book. It''s a great read for fans of space opera and criminal capers'' SF Crowsnest