She knows she’s good at her job, and makes no apology for her shoot-and-talk-later attitude. Her ambitions lead to service to the king, but she must first prove herself in FORTUNE'S PAWN.įORTUNE’S PAWN ( Amazon) is about Devi, our first-person narrator. And I know the girl crushing on the guy thing may annoy some male readers (especially since it does feel a bit forced), but the story does not revolve around the love angle.ĭevi Morris is a mercenary and she's good at her job. I’m not going so far as to stick it into the Books for Chicks category because I think it has enough to offer the guys, but it does lean more UF, despite the frequent weapon/armor/mercenary references. Think more… Urban Fantasy set in a spaceship. You need to know straight up this is not military SciFi even if it looks like it. But it turns out it’s not the enemy who will test her resolve… Working aboard the Glorious Fool turns out to be more than she anticipated, and Devi finds herself in more than one fight with terrible odds. Also odd are his varied crew, from the xith’cal doctor, the bird-like aeon navigator, and a ship’s cook who is unusually strong. The strange behavior of his daughter Ren. That a clan of alien xith’cal called a blood feud on him. How little Caldswell sells his shipments for. It doesn’t take long for Devi to notice a few oddities. There’s also a pretty good chance she won’t survive. If Devi can survive the year, then her chances of becoming a Devastator are pretty good. She signs up for a year-long stint aboard the Glorious Fool, a trader ship captained by the infamous Caldswell, who attracts bad luck wherever he goes. Her ambitions mean one day becoming one of the king’s own Devastators, but she must prove herself.

Devi Morris is a mercenary and she knows how good she is at her job.

Fortune's Pawn by Rachel Bach