Kris Longknife

Lieutenant Commander Kris Longknife has precise orders: seek out, engage, and destroy pirates, slavers, and drug lords operating beyond the rim of human space-without interfering in Peterwald family affairs. But when slavers kidnap a twelve-year-old girl, Kris''s mission becomes personal. And if destroying the pirate compound flattens some Peterwald interests-well, to hell with politics.