Captain's Share (Golden Age of the Solar Clipper, #5)

by Nathan Lowell

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of good fortune must be in want of a wife. However, a man of good fortune, in the company of a wife, may find himself questioning that truth—or at least its universality.

“Yes, well, just remember the little people on your meteoric rise to fame and power, Ms. Dagostino.” She laughed in reply. “Aye, sar, but I’m pretty sure meteors don’t rise, sar. They fall. That’s what makes them meteors and not asteroids.” “Makes you wonder where the phrase came from, doesn’t it, Ms. Dagostino?”

Serendipity strikes at odd moments and always when you’re not looking. I chuckled to myself, realizing that if I’d been looking, then it wouldn’t have been serendipity to begin with.