The Inconvenience of Time

"So what do we do?" she asked as murmuring broke out around them. Captain's eyes darted around the cave nervously as he wrung his hands, a feeble attempt to dry his sweaty palms. "Did you hear that applause? They outnumber us. We play along." Captain Asher Murphy doesn't really want to get involved in anyone else's business — just to keep his crew fed and his ship afloat. But when a routine job puts him and first mate Saida, a sharp-tongued former princess with a bounty on her head, square in the crosshairs of a brewing war, walking away stops being an option. All's fair in love and war, but when they happen at the same time? Chaos. At the center of it all is Tarm Industries, a ruthless tech giant arming the nation for civil war. Saida and Captain aren't the only ones who want to stop it. Somewhere inside Tarm's cluttered laboratory, a brilliant young engineer is working against the clock to sabotage her employer from the inside. If they want to survive, they'll have to outsmart a bioengineered warmonger — and stay one step ahead of the fight they've unwittingly joined. THE INCONVENIENCE OF TIME spans the first half of the Industrialized duology, a character-driven, slow-burn dystopian romance about who gets to decide what power looks like and what’s worth sacrificing for it.