Description: First Class courier pilot Theo Waitley inherits the precarious captaincy of a mysterious self-aware ship designed to serve a long-dead trader. Now she has a trade route to run for Clan Korval while she convinces the near-mythic ghost ship "Bechimo"Nand herselfNthat she wants to commit herself as the human side to their immensely powerful symbiosis. Original.
Brief description: Maine-based writers Sharon Lee and Steve Miller have written dozens of short stories and 20 plus novels, most set in their star-spanning Liaden Universe. Before settling down to the serene and stable life of a science fiction and fantasy writer, Steve was a traveling poet, rock-band reviewer, reporter, and editor of a string of community newspapers. Sharon, less adventurous, has been an advertising copywriter, copy editor on night-side news at a small city newspaper, reporter, photographer, and book reviewer. Both credit their newspaper experiences with teaching them the finer points of collaboration.