Adda and Iridian have survived the murderous AI that tried to kill them in Barbary Station and an evil megacorporation in Mutiny at Vest but now they'll need all of their ingenuity to make it to the end of this epic trilogy. Adda Karpe and Iridian Nassir are on the run—both from the authorities who want to imprison them and the artificial intelligence that want to control their minds. Trapped on a desolate black-market space station on the edge of Jupiter, they're nearly out of allies—and out of luck. Now, they have one last shot to find a safe haven where they can live together in peace—across the interstellar bridge to another galaxy. Getting onto that mission will take everything they've got and more. But on the other side of that bridge lies the life they've always dreamed of...if they can survive long enough to reach it.

The smart city that secures the world's idyllic way of life is failing, and it's up to a single engineer to find out why. Engineer Elys Kundakçi has been on the run since the fascist Republic's secret police framed her for a disaster that wasn't her fault. When she's picked up by a squad of armored social workers from an independent planet, she finds herself in a much-needed safe harbor. The social workers rescued Elys so she can fix the station's smart city infrastructure that decides where people live, runs their economy, and coordinates social services. Her rescuers' leader is patient, compassionate, and distractingly attractive. Elys's friendship — and, she dares to hope, romance — with her grows while Elys works on the station's problems. As signs point toward nearly undetectable sabotage, Elys must find the programming error and the saboteur behind it before the smart city's mistakes reveal her...

In this hardboiled science fiction novella set in the Shieldrunner Pirates universe, Ku Nel-Aoki sets out to learn why a colony ship is still docked after refueling. The reason turns Ku's comfortable life of crime upside down. A member of the organized crime group known as the Ceres syndicate has gotten arrested and the entire neighborhood's police force has been replaced. Ku's syndicate boss drops the whole mess in her lap. Now Ku has to clean it up before the police find a reason to put her in a cell too, or her boss gets impatient and kills everyone involved.Praise for Barbary Station, a novel which takes place in the same universe as this story:"This book is good fun. I really enjoyed this, and I bet you will, too." (Ann Leckie, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of Ancillary Justice)"Grabs you in chapter one and doesn't let go." (Mur Lafferty, Award-winning author of Six Wakes)

Two engineers hijack a spaceship to join some space pirates—only to discover the pirates are hiding from a malevolent AI. Now they have to outwit the AI if they want to join the pirate crew—and survive long enough to enjoy it.Adda and Iridian are newly minted engineers, but aren't able to find any work in a solar system ruined by economic collapse after an interplanetary war. Desperate for employment, they hijack a colony ship and plan to join a famed pirate crew living in luxury at Barbary Station, an abandoned shipbreaking station in deep space. But when they arrive there, nothing is as expected. The pirates aren't living in luxury—they're hiding in a makeshift base welded onto the station's exterior hull. The artificial intelligence controlling the station's security system has gone mad, trying to kill all station residents and shooting down any ship that attempts to leave—so there's no way out. Adda and Iridian have one chance to...

Adda and Iridian have survived the murderous AI that tried to kill them in Barbary Station...but now they'll need all of their ingenuity to escape the evil megacorporation that wants to own them, in this second space adventure in the Shieldrunner Pirates trilogy. Adda Karpe and Iridian Nassir have escaped the murderous AI that was trapping them on Barbary Station, and earned themselves a place on Captain Sloane's fabled pirate crew. And now that they've arrived at Vesta, Sloane's home base, they can finally start making a living stealing from well-off megacorporations. Unfortunately, the political situation has deteriorated in Captain Sloane's absence. Adda and Iridian find themselves trapped in a contract with Oxia Corp., one of the very megacorporations they'd hoped to prey on, forced to rob and intimidate targets they'd never have chosen on their own. If they're ever going to have the independent life together that they've always wanted, they'll have...