Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
Release Date: August 6, 2024
Publisher: DAW
Source: Publisher
Genre: Science Fiction
A high octane sexy space heist from New York Times bestselling author Beth Revis, the first in a novella trilogy
Ada Lamarr has a problem.
Several,
actually, but the most pressing problem at the moment is that the
oxygen in her spacesuit is at less than ten percent, and her ship’s hull
has been breached. Which severely undermines her desire to not die.
First
at the site of a wreck on a remote planet, Ada’s scavenging went awry
after her own ship attracted problems. Luckily, a government-funded
salvage crew arrives in time to save her. They have a specific mission,
complicated by their new refugee. The crashed ship on the planet had
been carrying highly valuable cargo, now lost somewhere in the debris
field.
After rescuing Ada, the crew is suspicious that her
looting had brought her too close to the valuable wreck, especially Rian
White, the ostensible leader of the mission with secrets of his own. As
Ada starts to help the crew, a tentative trust is formed. But the
closer Rian gets to Ada, the more he starts to wonder how much of her
story is a lie…and how far she’s willing to go to get what she actually came to the wreckage site for.
And Ada? Her real problem may just be that she’s falling for Rian.
A phenomenally fun novella that kicks off a trilogy of sexy space heists and romantic tension, Full Speed to a Crash Landing is packed with great characters and full of twists and turns that will keep you guessing until the end.
Beth Revis' Full Speed to a Crash Landing is the first novella in a 3-part trilogy called Chaotic Orbits. There are two main characters in Ada Lamarr, and Rian White. Ada is a lone scavenger, mostly scouring space
and planets for random ghost ships or wreckage to salvage anything that
might be valuable for resale on her ship, Glory. Rian is a government agent who, although he's not captain of the ship, has control over the current salvage mission to a planet where a ship has crashed with important technology onboard.
Ada may have gotten to the spaceship UGS Roundabout
wreck first, but looter’s rights won’t get her far when she’s got a hole
in the side of her ship and her spacesuit is almost out of air thanks to an explosion. Fortunately for her, help arrives in the form of a government salvage
crew named Halifax—and while they reluctantly rescue her from certain death, they, mostly Captain Ursula Io, is
not pleased to have an unexpected passenger along on their classified
mission.
But Ada doesn’t care, all that matters to her is enjoying
their fine food and sweet oxygen since she claims she hasn't been on solid group in months. Until Rian starts to suspect that there’s more to Ada
than meets the eye. He’s not wrong. Rian is desperate to find an important piece of intel from the very ruined spacecraft Ada has found. Ada is
perfectly happy to keep him paying attention to her, at least until she
can complete the job she was sent to pull off by her employer who we do not know at this moment.
There are all those little hints along the way thanks to the story being told in the first person narrative of there being more going on as well as the mystery surrounding this super important item they're retrieving. And if you really want to know more about who both Ada and Rian are, you need to read not only the final chapter, but past the authors acknowledgments which she appears to have written this book because some really made her lose her mind. It is apparent that the author intends to write 3 short novellas and call them a trilogy.
Note: Because these are novella's don't be shocked when you learn that there will likely be twisted cliffhanger endings. These ending pretty much ensure that if you liked the first novella, you will continue reading until the finale. If you like a snarky, sarcastic FMC, and a MMC who not has an axe to grind with said female, then you will enjoy this book.
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