At the frozen edge of the solar system lies a hidden treasure which could spell their fortune or their destruction—but only if they survive each other first.
Marcus Warnoc has a little problem. His asteroid mining ship—his inheritance, his livelihood, and his home—has been hijacked by a pint-sized corporate heiress with enough blackmail material to sink him for good, a secret mission she won’t tell him about, and enough courage to get them both killed. She may have him dead to rights, but if he doesn’t turn the tables on this spoiled Martian snob, he’ll be dead, period. He’s not giving up without a fight.
He has a plan.
Miranda Foxgrove has the opportunity of a lifetime almost within her grasp if she can reach it. Her stolen spacecraft came with a stubborn, resourceful captain who refuses to cooperate—but he’s one of the few men alive who can snatch an unimaginable treasure from beneath the muzzles of countless railguns. And if this foulmouthed Belter thug doesn’t want to cooperate, she’ll find a way to force him. She’s come too far to give up now.
She has a plan.
They’re about to find out that a plan is a list of things that won’t happen.
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Author Bio:
Devon Eriksen grew up surrounded by images of space, brought home to him by his father, an engineer at JPL. Devon is a life-long reader, with a particular fondness for classics from the golden age of science fiction, such as A Mote in God’s Eye and Ringworld. After decades as a software engineer, the unwavering encouragement of his wives presented an opportunity to pursue his childhood dream of being an author. He began writing stories with a single overarching goal: give the reader something to love.
A resident of Chattanooga, TN, Devon independently published is first novel Theft of Fire at the end of 2023. His character-driven hard science fiction has now been read, and loved, by bus drivers, asteroid scientists, welders, Space Force engineers, retired middle school English teachers, software titans like John Carmack, Eric S Raymon, and John Walker, and many more varieties of science fiction fans. It has been awarded the Atomic Rockets Seal of Approval, and nominated for the Libertarian Futurist Society’s Prometheus Award for best novel.