Cybernetic security unit Everett Mason didn’t know what a bad day at work was until he watched his boss shoot two delegates from a neighboring star system in cold blood. Framed for murder, he and fellow cyborg Zander get off Virtus Base and out of Coalition space by hijacking the only civilian shuttle on station. Unfortunately, that shuttle happens to be occupied with its owner and a Virtus Base housekeeper, who are not happy about being roped into an intergalactic incident.
Sunny Trethewey is new to the Coalition and living on a major space station, and thinks she might have found a friend in Gemma, a glamorous Consort traveling aboard her luxury shuttle. The one new experience Sunny didn’t want to try is being a fugitive with three people she just met, even if Everett is ridiculously attractive and doesn’t think she’s an ignoramus from a backwater planet to boot.
But as the four of them race away from the Coalition under the threat of death, tempers flare, accusations fly, and secrets about Virtus Base start to come out. And Everett and Sunny might be the only people in the universe the other can trust until they can finally find somewhere safe to hide.
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When cybernetic security unit Zander Bowman fled the Gold Pass System for Coalition space, his fellow fugitive Gemma Wakefield vowed to track him down and mount his head on the luxury shuttle he stole from her. Two months later, she gets her chance. Unfortunately, their reunion happens when the Coalition is on the brink of war thanks to R. Thomas Fullerton, Virtus Base’s corrupt founder. To make matters worse, Zander refuses to return her shuttle.
Being stuck aboard a vessel with Gemma is the definition of hell according to Zander, but if it means he’ll get out of the Coalition alive, he’s willing to tolerate her. Both of them have information the other needs, and both have their own reasons for wanting to see Fullerton fall. Forced to travel together again, Zander’s starting to see a different side to Gemma, one that isn’t quite so prickly.
As tensions rise and dangers mount, Gemma and Zander have to cooperate if they’re going to expose the man who framed them for murder and brought the threat of war to the Coalition. Zander’s certain they can do that—as long as they don’t kill each other first.
Jessica Marting 