Galaxy Grifter

Levi, an interstellar con artist, is all charm, no conscience. His only real love is his spaceship—his symbol of status and freedom—which he is forced to surrender as loan collateral. Desperate to get his ship back, Levi swindles a valuable antimatter-tech blueprint from an alien diplomat, which he plans to sell to the highest bidder. To decode the document, Levi hires Vera, a programmer whose inherited debt to the local mafia keeps her trapped on an asteroid in the galactic backwaters. Certain that Levi is merely using her, she plans to steal the blueprint for her creditors and finally gain her freedom. Their alliance is plagued by fiery tension, betrayals, and an impossible choice when they learn that an alien government intends to use the stolen technology to plan humanity’s genocide and that they will stop at nothing to retrieve their plans.