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Also by Elizabeth Moon:

Crown of Renewal, May 2014
Hardcover / e-Book
Crown Of Renewal, April 2014
Hardcover / e-Book
Engaging the Enemy, March 2006
Hardcover
Marque and Reprisal, August 2005
Paperback (reprint)
The Speed of Dark, June 2005
Hardcover
Marque and Reprisal, October 2004
Hardcover
Trading in Danger, September 2004
Paperback (reprint)
The Deed of Paksenarrion, October 2003
Hardcover (reprint)
Remnant Population, September 2003
Trade Size (reprint)
The Speed of Dark, January 2003
Hardcover
Heris Serrano, August 2002
Trade Size (reprint)
The Planet Pirates, August 2002
Paperback
Against the Odds, October 2001
Paperback (reprint)
Change of Command, December 2000
Paperback (reprint)

ENGAGING THE ENEMY
By: Elizabeth Moon

Del Rey
March 2006
Featuring: Kylara Vatta
416 pages
ISBN: 0345447565
Hardcover
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Science Fiction

The brilliantly unorthodox Kylara Vatta, black-sheep scion of Vatta Transport Ltd., one of the galaxy’s wealthiest merchant houses, is a heroine like no other, blessed with a killer instinct for business and for battle. Now, in the aftermath of cold-blooded assassinations that have left her parents dead and the Vatta shipping empire shattered, Kylara faces her greatest challenge yet.

There is a time for grief and a time for revenge. This is decidedly the latter. Placing her cousin Stella in command of the trading vessel Gary Tobai, Ky embarks aboard the captured pirate ship Fair Kaleen on a twofold mission: to salvage the family business and to punish those responsible for the killings . . . before they strike again.

Since the network providing instantaneous communication between star systems has been sabotaged, news is hard to come by and available information impossible to trust. But as she travels from system to system, with Stella a step behind, Ky pieces together the clues and discovers a conspiracy of terrifying scope, breathtaking audacity, and utter ruthlessness.

The only hope the independent systems and merchants have against this powerful enemy is to band together. Unfortunately, because she commands a ship known to belong to a notorious pirate–her own relative Osman Vatta, whom she killed for his part in her parents’ deaths–Ky is met with suspicion, if not outright hostility. Rumors swirl about her intent, her very identity. Soon even Stella begins to question her cousin’s decisions and her authority to make them.

Meanwhile, the conspiracy Ky hunts is hunting her in turn, with agents insinuated into every space station, every planetary government, every arm of the military, and every merchant house–including her own. Before she can take the fight to the enemy, Kylara must survive a deadly minefield of deception and betrayal.