Clockwork

This books contains two separate but thematically related stories. After the loss of her ship, Tara Cowan, a young trade pilot, is forced to take a position aboard a military vessel, The Gwydion. When she arrives she finds herself in the middle of unstable relations between the ship's crew and its leadership. Tara is soon forced to choose a side when the situation escalates to a mutiny. Years after his wife's unsolved death, Elijah is contacted by a mysterious figure who offers him information on the killers in exchange for his services. Elijah must use his expertise with electronics to track down a religious figure living in exile and deliver a message. The search takes him across the galaxy in a fight against time and forces him to make unlikely allies.