Blurb:
Rafe McTavish,
charming self-made businessman, owns the most successful private
security firm in the galaxy. Estranged from his family since his
wife's bloody suicide fourteen years earlier, he's honor bound to
find out why his brother-in-law, CEO of the family mega-corporation,
has jeopardized the company by purchasing a dilapidated deep-space
mining station. Arriving at the station to investigate, Rafe takes on
hostile miners, faces accusations of murder, chases a blackmailer
bent on his destruction, and matches wits with a beautiful
corporate-hating computer hacker, Kama Bhatia, who just may be the
love of his life—if they both survive.
“I apologize for disturbing you outside our
normal communication channels,” Kama said, acknowledging their unsecured
line. “I wanted to let you know that I’d arrived safely. I would have
contacted you sooner, but the station experienced communication issues.”
One almond-shaped eye twitched. “Issues?”
“Yes, but it didn’t prevent me from sending
your… birthday present. It’s on a cargo drone headed for Earth orbit. It
left here shortly after I arrived. I wasn’t able to check your
present’s condition.” She held her breath.
Samir went very still. She expected frost to
form on the view screen so cold was the displeasure in his gaze. He
hated complications, and she’d barely started listing them.
“Inconvenient. I’ll see the package is retrieved.” He smoothed the front of his immaculate gray suit with long, thin fingers.
She plunged on. “Unfortunately, your present isn’t complete. Pieces are missing, and other collectors have taken an interest.”
His hand stopped in mid-stroke. “Other collectors?”
Kama swallowed. Sweat moistened her palms
where they rested on the console. He really wouldn’t like the next news.
“There’s also a problem with the grant work I’m to do here for
Independent Mining. Seems EcoMech claims to have bought the place, and
Leon Goldman came in person to take possession. He has Rafael McTavish
in tow.”
The intensity of Samir’s stare rocked her back from the console.
“Is Mr. McTavish aware of your presence?” he asked in a deadly calm voice.
“We’ve been introduced.”
“It’s a large station. Enjoy those parts where Mr. McTavish is not found,” he ordered, his brows pulling down.
“Well, that’s the thing,”
she said, her voice rising in pitch. “There’s a bit of a shooting war
going on here, and he’s been taken prisoner by the miners.”
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About The Author:
K S Ferguson has already
published one critically-acclaimed novella, Puncher’s Chance (co-written
with James Grayson,) which appeared in the June 2006 edition of Analog
Science Fiction and Fact, America’s longest-running science fiction
magazine. She enjoys writing suspense and murder mysteries in futuristic
and fantasy settings, and also writes fiction in the guise of technical
manuals for unfinished software—otherwise known as help documentation.
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