Filled with fast-paced action and well-conceived characters."--Booklist Kylara Vatta is the only daughter in a family full of sons, and her father's only child to buck tradition by choosing a military career instead of joining the family business. For Ky, it's no contest: Even running the prestigious Vatta Transport Ltd. shipping concern can't hold a candle to shipping out as an officer aboard an interstellar cruiser. It's adventure,...
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Concentration Camps Family Secrets Forgiveness Hope Loss Redemption Survival Fiction Literature & Fiction Romance"Trading in Danger" is an adventure story in the context of a trading company, replacing the camel caravans and clipper ships of old with the space ships of tomorrow. Excitement and adventure in an imaginative story of a young woman's self-growth, dealing with commercial enterprises, military threats, leadership responsibility, risk taking, family relationships, romantic challenges, all in the face of injustice, subterfuge,...
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If I were still in college, this author would be on my DO NOT PICK UP UNTIL AFTER FINALS list. Like every other book she's written, this one begs to be read from cover to cover without putting it down. At first, I thought this story was going to be similar to her previous (and excellent) series. But after 2 pages, I was hooked and no longer noticed any similarities. Now that I'm done reading the book, I'm ready to read it...
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I loved this book, couldn't put it down. Good old fashion story telling with just enough techno to keep it science fiction. The author kept the number of characters to a minimum and kept the action focused on the main character. As soon as I finished this book I began searching for other books by this author. Thank you Elizabeth, I had a very enjoyable weekend with your book.
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This the first book of the Vatta space opera series. Kylara Vatta is a young woman from a rich shipping family who gets booted out a military academy, so her father assigns her the captancy of an old space freighter that needs to be piloted to a distant scrap yard. Naturally, things don't go according to plan....Yes, there are a lot of simlarities between this book and the author's Serrano/Esmay books, but there are also enough...
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Ky Vatta wakes up as a senior cadet in the honor squad yet a couple of hours later she is asked to hand in her resignation because she broke a rule causing major fallout. She returns home and is given command of the Glennys Jones, an old FTL ship that is to be sold for scrap after it finishes its lasting trading venture.When Ky reaches the planet Belinda, she discovers the government needs agricultural equipment that another...
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