The Inconvenience of Time

<p><strong>So what do we do? she asked as murmuring broke out around them.</strong></p><p><strong>Captain's eyes darted around the cave nervously as he wrung his hands a feeble attempt to dry his sweaty palms. Did you hear that applause? They outnumber us. We play along.</strong></p><p>Captain Asher Murphy doesn't really want to get involved in anyone else's business - just to keep his crew fed and his ship afloat. But when a routine job puts him and first mate Saida a sharp-tongued former princess with a bounty on her head square in the crosshairs of a brewing war walking away stops being an option.</p><p>All's fair in love and war but when they happen at the same time? Chaos. </p><p>At the center of it all is Tarm Industries a ruthless tech giant arming the nation for civil war. Saida and Captain aren't the only ones who want to stop it. Somewhere inside Tarm's cluttered laboratory a brilliant young engineer is working against the clock to sabotage her employer from the inside. If they want to survive they'll have to outsmart a bioengineered warmonger - and stay one step ahead of the fight they've unwittingly joined.</p><p>THE INCONVENIENCE OF TIME spans the first half of the <em>Industrialized</em> duology a character-driven slow-burn dystopian romance about who gets to decide what power looks like and what's worth sacrificing for it.</p>