Trade Secret
Star-spanning galactic trader Jethri Gobelyn’s story continues in the
seventeenth entry in the Liaden Universe series by master storytellers
Sharon Lee and Steve Miller.
In a universe full of interstellar
intrigue and burgeoning commerce novice Terran trader Jethri Gobelyn,
adopted by a Liaden clan after an ill-directed bow of honor insulted the scion of a major Liaden house, is alive and whole to tell the tale.
Convinced that the adoption has saved his life and made his future he
settles into a comfortable and even elite routine, a Trader's Ring his
goal.
Even as Jethri's initiation into the mysteries and joys of
Liaden Festival bring him to manhood he's forced to face Necessity and
the facts of life: his adoption has also invigorated a net of unfinished Balance far more complex and potentially deadly than a simple Terran
blood feud. He must embrace his Terran birthright as well as his Liaden
connections while leaving behind the safety of the great Liaden trade
ship Elthoria to defend his honor and that of shipmates past and
present.
Forced to sit Second Board as a back-up pilot on a Liaden Scout ship, Jethri's convinced he's already at wit's end — when several familiar faces threaten all that he knows of himself, and all that he wishes to do.
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Steve Miller
Steve Miller was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1950. He graduated high school in 1968, attended University of Maryland Baltimore County a couple times, where he was news editor of the campus newspaper, The Retriever, active in the chess club and founding president of the Infinity Circle, the school's first science fiction club. In between bouts of being a student, he was curator of the Albin O. Kuhn Library's science fiction collection.
In no particular order he has been a reviewer – of music, of books and of typewriters – a reporter, an editor, a professional chess tournament director, a librarian, an editor, a sysop, an editor and a resource specialist for a statewide electronic bulletin board system.
Liaden Universe
Liaden Universe consists of twenty-six books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
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