I wouldn’t need to wait out the Valg to get the Orlovs’ rent. All it would take was one ship saying yes. Perhaps I could appeal to other ships, get their buy-in first, then use the startup funds to get my patent. I hated myself for thinking it, profiting off misery. And the license fees to use it would save my family. If other ships were on rations, water rations especially, my system could offer some relief. A thought slithered up my spine unbidden. This was where I’d found the idea for my water-filtration system, a home-improvement project I’d undertaken several years ago to help the Sofi extend precious resources. I browsed the exhibits I’d looked at a hundred times. Plus, it was where the Scandinavian housed historical documents, cultural artifacts, and more from Earth’s history. No one read real books anymore, but the library kept hundreds of them carefully under glass, in addition to the digital stations where the residents could reload their tabs with more things to read. I wended my way through gallery after gallery, into the royal ballroom (half of it cordoned off due to fire damage), through to the library, one of my favorite spaces on board. But old habits die hard, and as Leo navigates the glittering balls of the Valg Season, she finds herself falling for her first love in a game of love, lies, and past regrets.įans of Katharine McGee and Kiera Cass will be dazzled by this world of lost love and royal intrigue. Now he’s the biggest catch of the season and he seems determined to make Leo’s life miserable. Elliot was the one who got away, the boy Leo’s family deemed to be unsuitable for marriage. Eighteen-year-old Princess Leonie “Leo” Kolburg, heir to a faded European spaceship, has only one thing on her mind: which lucky bachelor can save her family from financial ruin?īut when Leo’s childhood friend and first love, Elliot, returns as the captain of a successful whiskey ship, everything changes. BOOK DESCRIPTIONĮngagement season is in the air.
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