Demi had tried to atone for her criminal past, but when a bold, adventurous, slightly insane narcissist of a Captain, Frisson 'Friss' Packlightly, falls into her orbit, she finds criminality has not finished with her.
Along with Lap, a two-dimensional, very opinionated being who only Friss can understand, their found (stolen) Galactic Navy corvette (Zapasnoy), Bognrd BloodRage, an ultra-violent chef, Briyun, the rodent-killing stoat-like creature who talks exclusively in questions and Lodka, Friss' lost, organic ship that Friss has an 'interesting' relationship with, they must find a way to break into the most secure facility in the entire Galaxy.
A facility located in the very centre of the Black Hole at the galaxy's core.
Demi must navigate intimate relationships, blaster fire, wormholes that really don't like people using them and mathematics that would make most people's ears bleed, in order to find a cure for the disease that ravages her brother and sister. Except, they have no idea who she is.
🥉3rd Place, Sci-Fi Category in Banana Awards 2022 (10th Oct. 2022)🥉
🏵Featured - Ambassador Profile - Humor - Nov 2023🏵
🏵Featured by Ambassador Profile - Science Fiction - Jan 2023🏵
Cover created in Canva, using Pixabay stock pictures.
Wattys 2021 shortlist. Shipwrecked on a criminal-infested mining colony, military telepath Reid Kaplan needs answers about the attack on his ship and the unusual alien activity on the planet he's stranded on. Unfortunately, some of those answers might lie in a mind as unique as it is dangerously flawed.
Customs inspector Jinsin Koel is used to having guns pointed at her head - but not ones attached to weapon-heavy cyborg insects who consider her lower on the food chain. The Xykeree, past enemies of humanity, should never have been allowed to dock at her home port. And they're just the start of her problems. Throw in a hereditary neurological illness and a secret society of soldiers genetically tailored for psionic combat and she has herself a whole new level of trouble ... the kind that could destroy her personal foundations and imperil billions of lives.
Complete novel (word count approx. 115,600; no cliffhanger ending)
Action adventure, space opera
Reader advisory: strong language, violence/horror, sexual content
UK spelling