The second book in the beloved, bestselling series “Laim Saga”! Perfect for fans of Neal Asher and 'To Sleep in a Sea of Stars' by Christopher Paolini!

The crew of spaceship NT4 simply needs one small pocket of the galaxy to recover. But their ship is on the fritz…and they’re being hunted. Alisia Randolf never wanted to be a queen. She wanted to live a normal life as a historian, to fall in love and maybe have a family of her own. On Earth. Instead, she was captured by interstellar slave traders, freed herself with the help of her AI symbiont, became the leader of the ship, and made her fair share of enemies—enemies intent on annihilating her and her subjects once and for all.

With a damaged ship, a compromised crew, and nowhere to hide, Alisia is confronted with choices more difficult than any she’s faced before. Choices between doing what’s right and doing what’s easy, choices between trust and logic. She’s confronted with more mysteries, too, like why the love of her life suddenly finds himself unable to express his feelings to her satisfaction (by word or deed). With a deadly army of aliens bearing down on her and her found family, Alisia must learn to rely on her friends, her lover, her AI neural implant, and her own intelligence and strength to see them all through to live another day and fight another battle.

Alisia: "Well, maybe I like being a queen after all".

Book 2 of the Laim Series.