Artifice / Maximum (In)security

Parts 6 and 7. Original titles: Artifices, 2003, Q.H.I., 2004.

Two stories in one book in a new handy format! In “Artifice”, feisty human agent Navee falls on a planet persecuted by a ruling class with little regard for life. She faces her coldest rival ever. In “Maximum (In)security”, she is given the task of dismantling a ring trafficking in planets but to do so she must retrieve Rib’Wund, a mercenary she worked with already out of a maximum security prison filled with ultra violent inmates! We also get to find out how she got those white bands across her body!

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