Jemm Aves battles to keep her dreams alive on a dead-end world. Working for the mines by day, sheโs a successful bajha player at night, disguised as a male to be allowed to compete in the colonyโs dangerous underworld where club owners will go to extremes to retain the best players. Every win puts her one small step closer to her goal: saving enough to escape Barรฉsh with her family. When a nobleman from one of the galaxyโs elite families recruits her to be a star player for his team, it's because he doesn't know her secret. Her ruse proves to be her most perilous game yet when it puts both their livesโ and her heartโat risk.
Prince Charming he was not...
Prince Klark is eager to reverse his reputation as the black sheep of the Vedla clan, a family as famous for its wealth and power as it is for being a bastion of male- dominated tradition. If his bajha team can win the galactic title it would go a long way toward restoring the family honor that his misdeeds tarnished. He travels to Barรฉsh to track down an amateur whoโs risen to the top of the seedy world of street bajha, offering the commoner a chance of a lifetime: a way off that reeking space rock for good. But his new player comes with a scandalous secret that turns his plans and his beliefs upside down. He sets out to win a very different prizeโhis championโs reluctant heart.
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