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Safe Passage

Safe Passage, Book 1

by Rachel Ford

Safe Passage - Rachel Ford
Part of the Black Flag series:
  • Safe Passage
Editions:Kindle: $ 4.99
ISBN: B07NQL5XX9
Pages: 339
Paperback: $ 9.99
ISBN: 109921839X
Size: 6.00 x 9.00 in
Pages: 337
Audiobook: $ 17.99
ISBN: B07VLCYP59

Go big or go home.
For privateer Captain Magdalene Landon, it's all about going big. For Kay Ellis, it's about getting home. Together, they're about to architect the most daring heist in the galaxy.

Kay knows too much. She knows it’s a matter of time before a Conglomerate hitman finds her. She’s desperate for safe passage back to Union space. Then Magdalene shows up, promising a way home in exchange for that information. It’s a risky bet, but Kay is out of options.

So she strikes a deal: the heist of the century for her freedom. Kay is playing a dangerous game, and she knows it. She’s made herself Enemy Number One of the Conglomerate. She’s relying on privateers for her safety.

It’s a fool’s game. But the worst part is, her fool’s heart is starting to warm to the enigmatic captain. And that’s a risk for which she hadn’t planned.

(Cover by May Dawney Designs)

2019 Sci-Fi Lesfic Bard award winner

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Tropes: Band of Brothers/Sisters, Band of Misfits, Enemy to Ally, FTL, Galactic Civilization, Good Robots, Redemption Arc, Sentient AI, Space Pirates
Word Count: 72000
Setting: space
Languages Available: English
Series Type: Continuous / Same Characters
Tropes: Band of Brothers/Sisters, Band of Misfits, Enemy to Ally, FTL, Galactic Civilization, Good Robots, Redemption Arc, Sentient AI, Space Pirates
Word Count: 72000
Setting: space
Languages Available: English
Series Type: Continuous / Same Characters
Excerpt:

The newcomer was continuing, “Trust me, Katherine: men like Joe aren’t your ticket out of here.” She leaned back and cocked her head to the side. “Now, me on the other hand? Well, I may be just what you’re looking for.”

I rather doubted it, and let an eyebrow creep up my forehead just far enough to convey my skepticism.

She laughed. “The thing is Kate – you don’t mind if I call you Kate, do you? Anyway, the thing is-”

She hadn’t slowed down long enough for me to say that I did mind, but now another thought crowded that one out. “Hold on. How do you know my name?”

She grinned. “Oh, that’s easy. I came here to find you.”

I felt my heart sink. This was it, then: the assassin I’d been expecting. The Conglomerate had finally decided I was no longer worth keeping around, and they’d sent this irreverent scrap of a woman to do me in. “For the Conglomerate?”

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She smirked. “You can’t be naive enough, Kate, to think that they’re really sending someone to rescue you from the exile they’ve imposed? They want you here, where you’re safely out of the way – where they can reach you if they need and dispose of you when they decide they’re done.”

I could feel my hands trembling. I tried to force a steadiness to my tone. If I was going to die, I was going to do it with my boots on. “So you’re here to kill me?”

She laughed. “Don’t be ridiculous. I wouldn’t join you for dinner if I was here to kill you.” She shrugged. “Anyway, assassination isn’t my style.”

“Then what do you want?”

“The same thing they’re trying to keep safe.” She leaned across the table and tapped a forefinger against the side of my head. “The secrets buried inside that brain of yours, Katherine Ellis.”

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About the Author

Award-winning author Rachel Ford is a software engineer by day, and a writer most of the rest of the time. She is a Trekkie, a video-gamer, and a dog parent, owned by a Great Pyrenees named Elim Garak and a mutt of many kinds named Fox (for the inspired reason that he looks like a fox).