[Starship Fairfax_The Kuiper Chronicles 02] • The Hidden Prophet

**System-wide laws were made to be broken.**

Lucas Odin can’t catch a break. What began as a shuttling mission under flag of truce escalated to a fight to keep the Fairfax in one piece. Now he and his crew are plunging back in-system in search of the missing Martian Ambassador Taurius, whom they are supposed to convey to a peace summit on Pluto. But Odin has reasons to suspect Taurius isn’t all he seems. He’d better be worth sneaking into enemy space, taking on hostile pirates at every turn, and courting an all-out war with the mafia bosses of Ceres. The walls are closing in around Odin and the Fairfax. Can they find the ambassador and get back to Kuiper space before they become the very enemy they are fighting to destroy?

**You really can’t go back.**

Ada Xander wakes every day to the need to scream. Everything she thought she knew, the person she thought she was—it’s all been wiped from the inky blackness of space, and life has become a dirge of running, sneaking, and sleeping with one eye open. She's been roped into a life of piracy, and she's fallen on the boss's bad side. But when a new power rises in the system and begins destroying habs, settlements, and old alliances, will Ada find a way to survive? And once she understands everything at stake, will she want to at all?

The Hidden Prophet is Book 2 in the Starship Fairfax series, of The Kuiper Chronicles. It is precluded by The Lunar Gambit, which is precluded by two short stories: “Totaled,” a free story; and “The Trials of Io,” a free story exclusive to newsletter subscribers.