HMS Nightingale: Alexis Carew #4

For Lieutenant Alexis Carew it should be the perfect assignment -- a command of her own and a chance to return to her home star system. What she finds is a surly crew the dregs of every frigate and ship of the line to pass through on the way to the wars front a first officer who thinks the command should have been his and colonial worlds where they believe a girls place is somewhere very different than command of a Queens starship. Add to that the mysterious disappearances of ships vital to the war effort and an old enemy who seems intent on convincing her hes changed. Then theres the mongoose with an unnatural affinity for her boots.