A racy, spacey odyssey like nothing we've read before, Polaris Rising had us biting our lip in anticipation… of the sequel. Everything about this future world is imaginative and flat-out fun, right down to Mahilik's clever take on long-distance space travel. Even on top of the white-hot romance, we loved stepping into Mahilik’s vivid future landscapes and the pulse-pounding battles, captures and escapes that came with them. But when she finds herself trapped on a merchant ship next to Marcus Loch, the ‘Verse’s most wanted (and most muscular) rebel, things take an unexpected-and at times, delightfully steamy-turn. She's on the run from an arranged marriage, and the toughest bounty hunters in the galaxy are vying to collect the steep reward promised for her return.

Ada von Hasenberg is a badass princess from the universe's Royal Consortium. Packed full of immersive futuristic worldbuilding, wildly exciting space adventures and a hefty dose of sexy interstellar romance, the first book in Jessie Mahilik's Consortium Rebellion trilogy is everything we want in a sci-fi novel. Her only hope is to strike a deal with the dangerous fugitive: a fortune if he helps her escape.īut when you make a deal with an irresistibly attractive Devil, you may lose more than you bargained for. When the ship returning them to Earth is attacked by a battle cruiser from rival House Rockhurst, Ada realizes that if her jilted fiancé captures her, she’ll become a political prisoner and a liability to her House. Known as the Devil of Fornax Zero, Loch is rumored to have killed his entire chain of command during the Fornax Rebellion, and the Consortium wants his head. To ensure she cannot escape again, the fiery princess is thrown into a prison cell with Marcus Loch. The spirited princess flees before the betrothal ceremony and disappears among the stars.Īda eluded her father’s forces for two years, but now her luck has run out. When her father arranges for her to wed a noble from House Rockhurst, a man she neither wants nor loves, Ada seizes control of her own destiny. As the fifth of six children, Ada von Hasenberg has no authority her only value to her High House is as a pawn in a political marriage. In the far distant future, the universe is officially ruled by the Royal Consortium, but the High Councillors, the heads of the three High Houses, wield the true power. Jessie Mihalik is an author to watch.”-Ilona Andrews, #1 New York Times bestselling authorĪ space princess on the run and a notorious outlaw soldier become unlikely allies in this imaginative, sexy space opera adventure-the first in an exciting science fiction trilogy. “Polaris Rising is space opera at its best, intense and addictive, a story of honor, courage, betrayal, and love.

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