Stellar Dynamics and

Laura Hollis is a young, aspiring journalist who's stuck working in a diner on one of Styria's moons and has never been out of her own solar system. When a mysterious stranger shows up one night and offers her a ride out and the promise of an adventure, it's like a dream too good to be true. Carmilla Karnstein, a spaceship mechanic, is wanted throughout the galaxies for, among other things, theft, piracy, fraud, murder, treason, spaceship traffic and safety violations, and general public indecency. She's probably going to get charged with kidnapping one of these days, but really, these things are all just misunderstandings.