Money’s tight, so Captain “Allie” Ah-Lee of the single-ship Mercury agrees to take on a job for AASU Insurance. The job looks simple on the surface. Someone is using the rapidly growing Endpoint system as the base for a smuggling operation. Allie simply needs to find out who is behind the operation and how they make it work. However, before the end she will have tangled with pirates and with someone who even the pirates fear.
Captain “Allie” Ah-Lee of the single-ship Mercury finds herself reluctantly recruited to take part in what, on the surface, is just a light-hearted adventure contest. Her real task is to find the saboteur who is out to undermine the game – and so bring catastrophe down on the entire human race. Can Allie unmask the saboteur before the saboteur unmasks the hidden violence of the human soul?
Here are three stories of action and adventure featuring interstellar adventurer Captain “Allie” Ah-Lee of the single-ship Mercury. In “Endpoint Insurance,” Allie is asked to look into a smuggling ring and finds she must foil a terrorist plot. In “Winner Takes Trouble,” Allie wins a poker game – and finds the prize may be more than she gambled on. In “Here To There,” Allie is asked to take part in a contest in which some of the participants are playing for deadly stakes. Also included is an exclusive introduction by the author discussing how the stories came to be written.
Soon after Captain “Allie” Ah-Lee of the single-ship Mercury wins the adorable alien creature Gittchy in a poker game, she realizes there’s a lot more to her new companion than the frills and furbelows Gittchy adores. When the formidable Silent Watch expresses just a little too much interest in Gittchy, Allie realizes she must learn where Gittchy comes from or risk losing her new friend forever.