A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe (The Salvagers, #1)

by Alex White

“I sold that picture, and a woman showed up, burned down my office, killed Cyril, tried to kill you, and chased us with a pair of warships. I think we can assume it’s the real deal.”

That may be true, but ….

Parody of the entitled and privileged teen.

They bought off the Fixers and hit us with two fricking battle cruisers. And you seem to forget the bounty on your head.”

Nilah

Haha

Boots

Haha

It looked like pressed protein garbage, but smelled heavenly.

The eggheads at High Command found a way to enchant them like the hoteliers do.

If you want the best athletes, you’ve got to treat them like prized beasts.

I don’t work half as much as you, and that’s the way I like it.”

“But you’re pampered as hell,” Boots

“And you only think about yourself.

unfamiliar shame burning in her breast.

Mee too. I’m not a high-paid professional atheists and a I didn’t work out all winter long to be in shape in the spring, but year in and year out week in and week out I worked and prepared and sweated to do battle with federal prosecutors, federal judges, federal stents, in very high stakes in the public forums of federal court.

I’m not merely frightened. My dreams are at stake.”

Chalice of Hana

Renwick Dynasty.

the Saint of Flowers,

I ran the numbers, and we had a few million years before that red giant ate everything in its system.

Gemma Katz,

Gemma

Stetson Giles.

I was finally going to get to cast magic.”

“What’s to tell? Everyone gets a cardioid, and I didn’t.” “I thought you couldn’t live without it.”

Marshanda Fosser.

“I’ve had rather bad luck talking about the war.” “And I couldn’t care less about life in a race car. I doubt we have one thing in common.”

Sam Mitcham?”

Erantis System.

“So it’s racing and legendary treasures?”

Nilah

mechanist’s art,

Simile

Boots

Armin

Carré

Cordell’s

Haha

Cordell would project a shield across the belly during reentry.

His amplified magic could stop military-grade slingers,

Orna, Malik, Aisha, Didier, and Nilah

Haha

the palace of Duke Thiollier,

Boots glanced over at Nilah, wondering what that look was on her face. It could’ve been shame, or some regret of some kind.

She’d played it pretty cool with him, kept it professional, and she worried about that mask slipping.

Nilah,

Orna

Malik

Haha

a scent that carried both the acute memory of being knocked unconscious and inexplicable exhilaration.