Reliance

Book excerpt: Finn No Last Name lives her life exactly the way she likes. Sure, she lives on a Mud Pit with some of the worst criminals and cast-offs the Reliance has to offer, but she has a knack for stealing things that has earned her a reputation as the best thief the Farthers has to offer. Unfortunately for Finn, her life gets turned on its head when she tries to steal from an upper-caste courtesan and winds up stuck in space on a merchant ship. This ship happens to be run by a strange, eclectic crew and Finn quickly learns that there is more to them than meets the eye. Before she can escape or con her way back home, she finds herself embroiled in a mission to uncover the Reliance’s darkest secret . . . a secret that may hit closer to home than she could have ever imagined. Reliance introduces a fantastic new character as impetuous and defiant as Rogue One’s Jyn Erso and begins a thrilling new trilogy that fans of crew-driven space operas by authors such as Rachel Bach (Fortune’s Pawn), Mike Brooks (Dark Run), and James S.A. Corey (The Expanse) will find themselves racing through at light speed.