Void All The Way Down

Captain Lana Fiveworlds has a hell of a lot of problems. Shes sliding void in an ageing seven-hundred-year-old space ship scrabbling around the edges of civilised space trying to find a cargo lucrative enough to pay her bills without proving so risky that itll kill her. Shes got an alien religious freak for a navigator an untrustworthy android for a first mate a disgraced lizard for a trade negotiator and a deserter from the fleet acting as her chief engineer. And that was well before an ex-crewman turns up wanting Lana to rescue a barbarian prince from a long-failed colony world. Unfortunately for Lana the problems she doesnt know about are even more dangerous. In fact they just might be enough to destroy Lanas rickety but much-loved vessel the Gravity Rose and jettison her and her crew into the void without a spacesuit. But theres one thing you can never tell an independent space trader. Thats the odds...