Paladin

Third in a popular series.

The Aeolus team just wasn't expecting bounty hunters. With money in the bank from their last amazingly lucrative job, the team remodels their sentient starship. Then it's off to Ackalon to install the new weapons. Paperwork aside, it should have been straightforward. They expected two months of relaxing and seeing the sights while waiting for their friend Jis Boc Seckan's coronation as ruler of the planet.

Those plans abruptly changed when bounty hunters took Lexi.

Jis isn't concerned. She already thinks of Lexi as frighteningly effective. Ron and Geena are only marginally concerned. Lexi tends to find a way, no matter what. Lexi is titillated, finding the opportunity to quote from a Schwarzenegger film in the process of escaping. Of course, she was high on truth serum at the time. The escape itself wasn't that big of a deal for her.

Dealing with the armed pirate ships that were invisible to her ship's sensor array, well, that was a problem.