Dawn Marynuik

All her life, Jade Church has dreamed of owning her own starship and flying the space lanes as a courier. Being paid to see the galaxy. that’s the life she’s always wanted... Her first job was supposed to be easy. Just deliver a small case to a small, non-descript, colony planet, they said. Nobody told her she was carrying a priceless cargo. Or that this small case had been stolen. Or she’d have to deal with ruthless soldiers, assassins, implacable AIs, and massive alien carnivores.

Nikki Setzer thought she knew what she wanted and transformed herself to get it. Now she’s having a do that again, to escape. Micah Allen is in a new town starting his own law firm on a shoestring. The last thing he wants to do is harm some woman he keeps running into, nearly literally. But they do keep running into each other, and this woman definitely has some secrets. Can Nikki allow Micah to get close? How much danger is he in if she does? But this place is beginning to feel like a home with friends. Does she dare let down her guard?

After a staged terrorist attack kills the President and most of Congress, the government is deposed and taken over by the oppressive and all-controlling Republic of Gilead. Offred is a Handmaid serving in the household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife. She can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost even her own name.