All he wanted was a simple job to make ends meet. What he got was a mysterious cat girl, a shot at a hoard of treasure, and a whole lot of trouble.

The Solar System ain't what it used to be!

In the far distant future, Saturn's rings are gone, Mercury is a gas giant, and Earth is remembered only as a unit of measure. Nearly godlike AIs reshaped the Solar System in eons past, but they too are now nothing more than a fading memory.

Captain Nathaniel Kade cares for none of that. He's but a simple freelancer from the orbital ring of Neptune, struggling to make ends meet and to keep his understaffed spaceship from falling apart. All he wants is a decent, uneventful job to help put his finances back in order.

What he receives instead is Vessani S'Kaari, a mysterious and beautiful cat girl who tried--and failed--to steal a ship belonging to a band of space pirates. Vessani's in over her head and is clearly more trouble than she's worth, but she also has a lead on what may be the greatest treasure trove of lost technology the Solar System has ever seen.

Nathan pulls her butt out of the fire, and together they begin to assemble a team to seek out this long-lost bounty. But other interested parties have their eyes on the same prize; the Jovian Everlife has dispatched a fleet of warships with one of their elite, many-bodied agents in command, and he'd like a few words with Nathan and his new crewmember.

Author: Jacob Holo
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Baen
Published: 10/01/2024
Series: Freelancers of Neptune #1
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.2lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.50d
ISBN: 9781982193683

About the Author
Jacob Holo is a former-Ohioan, former-Michigander living in sunny South Carolina. He describes himself as a writer, gamer, hobbyist, and engineer who started writing after his parents bought him an IBM 286 desktop back in the '80s. He's been writing ever since.