Intimate Weapons

Jovita Rees is running for her life. Infused with nanites to heighten her natural abilities, Jovita has become little better than a weapon for her people. The cost of these heinous experiments was the complete erasure of her memories. With little more than the memory of her name and the medical torture she suffered on the Celedon science colony of Theta, she stows away aboard the Vanden vessel, Guidestar, to flee the guards of Presari Station. Hoping to exchange sex for safe passage to Vanden, she stows away on the ship of Mallic Telonis, the Vanden Regent's First Advisor. Mallic is shocked to discover a beautiful Celedon woman in his bed. Despite her offer and beauty, he is troubled she would offer such a prize for a ride across the galaxy when all she needed was to declare political asylum. A check into her background finds unexpected results when it comes to light Jovita Rees was not only the court psychic to the Celedon tsia but died under mysterious circumstances. So, who is the woman in Mallic's bed? Into the confusion, word comes that a powerful weapon has been smuggled off Celedon. The break-through technology could shift the balance of power in the known worlds. Mallic fears Jovita knows where the weapon is kept, but never dreams the woman he has begun to desire more than any other he's known, may be the weapon in question.