However, she also knows he’s very dangerous. Loch is a big muscular man, with a rugged attractiveness Ada is immediately drawn to. She is put in a cell with another prisoner – Marcus Loch. For a while I thought Mayport was like Zen from Blake’s Seven.) (Fun fact: it took me a while to cotton on that Mayport was the name of the ship and not the name of a navigator or the ship’s computer. Undaunted, Ada almost immediately begins to plot her escape from the spaceship Mayport. Ada puts up a spirited defense but is outnumbered. The novel starts with immediate action as Lady Ada von Hasenberg is captured by mercenaries, the result of a steep bounty her father put on her capture and return to Earth. Sci-fi romance is my new favourite thing to read. I was so excited to read Polaris Rising after reading that blurb.

Her only hope is to strike a deal with the dangerous fugitive: a fortune if he helps her escape.īut when you make a deal with an irresistibly attractive Devil, you may lose more than you bargained for. When the ship returning them to Earth is attacked by a battle cruiser from rival House Rockhurst, Ada realizes that if her jilted fiancé captures her, she’ll become a political prisoner and a liability to her House. Known as the Devil of Fornax Zero, Loch is rumored to have killed his entire chain of command during the Fornax Rebellion, and the Consortium wants his head. To ensure she cannot escape again, the fiery princess is thrown into a prison cell with Marcus Loch.

The spirited princess flees before the betrothal ceremony and disappears among the stars.Īda eluded her father’s forces for two years, but now her luck has run out. When her father arranges for her to wed a noble from House Rockhurst, a man she neither wants nor loves, Ada seizes control of her own destiny. As the fifth of six children, Ada von Hasenberg has no authority her only value to her High House is as a pawn in a political marriage. In the far distant future, the universe is officially ruled by the Royal Consortium, but the High Councillors, the heads of the three High Houses, wield the true power. A space princess on the run and a notorious outlaw soldier become unlikely allies in this imaginative, sexy space opera adventure-the first in an exciting science fiction trilogy.

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