Trilby Elliot grew up on the fringes of Conclave society,
but now she's a legal -- well, mostly legal -- independent
trader with her own starship, the Careless Venture. So what
if half the equipment on board doesn't work, the other half
is eighty years out of date, and none of the parts actually
match? And so what if she and her copilot, a talkative
'droid named Dezi, are currently holed up on a forgotten
planet while they cobble together a slipshod repair job in
preparation for her next trade jaunt? It's business as
usual, for Trilby... at least, until she watches a 'Sko
fighter ship crash-land on "her" planet. Her initial
intention is to leave the pilot for dead and salvage the
wreckage for sale on a civilized world, but when she
discovers that the pilot is not a 'Sko, but a Zafharin
military officer, her plans -- and her life -- change.
Initially, the change doesn't look like it's going to be for
the better.
For starters, Rhis Vanur is everything she expects from a
Zafharin: Stuck-up, arrogant, and domineering. (He is also
brilliant, charismatic, and far too handsome for his own
good.) For another, dropping him off somewhere he can make
contact with his own people is going to put her seriously
off her route. But those things become the last of her
worries when the 'Sko come hunting both of them. Trilby and
Rhis must elude the deadly fighters and discover what secret
the Careless Venture holds, or both the Conclave and
Zafharin will suffer. And speaking of secrets, Rhis has a
few of his own...
FINDERS KEEPERS leaps right into the action, but it still
may feel like a slow start to readers. Trilby and Rhis are
compelling and easy to like, but the fast-paced chemistry
between them seems forced in the beginning, and almost
overwhelms the foundation of the plot. But hang in there:
About a hundred pages in, the book takes an abrupt turn for
the enthralling, developing layers of complexity and
intrigue that the opening chapters somehow miss. The
universe Ms. Sinclair envisions is vibrant, filled with
enticing characters who obviously have their own lives and
their own stories to tell. As the number in the corner of
the page climbs, this book becomes harder and harder to put
down, and by its conclusion, any fan of sci-fi will decide
it is well worth the read.
Independent trader Trilby Elliot is making some
not-quite-legal modifications to her starfreighter, when an
unexpected visitor falls out of space. Literally. He's
crashed onto the uninhabited planet of Avanar in a crippled
'Sko fighter -- the last place you'd expect to find a
Zafharin military officer because the 'Sko and the Zafharin
have been at war as long as Trilby can remember.
Rhis Vanur is your typically arrogant Zafharin. But to
Trilby's surprise, he doesn't look down on her or her
slap-dash ship. Still, Trilby's learned the hard way that
even though she found Rhis, she can't keep him. She's just a
low-budget jump jockey as far as men like him are concerned.
She's not falling for his offer to help...until Port Rumor
reports her best friend missing and Trilby learns that the
'Sko are hunting both her and Rhis. Now they're in it
together for better, for worse -- or til death blasts them
to oblivion...
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