The Price of High Ground
Published by Self-published · Fiction
The Worlds Between Home, Book 3 of 10. On Vanthel, where arrival is an invoice and every charge is published, the family learns that each honest offer made to them comes with a claim on their ship.
Who this book is for
Crossover young adult and adult readers who enjoy political science fiction, dystopian adventure, and family-centered space opera.
Table of contents
- Terms of Docking
- Above the Tide
- Aldex Oled, Proprietor
- Seasonal Ground
- Premium Care
- Rodex for Hire
- The Impossible Market
- Buyout
- The High-Water Clause
- Claims Against the Sky
- Hostile Tender
- Protected Assets
- Uninsured District
- The Merchant Corridor
- Public Provision
Excerpt
The berth cost four hundred and eleven a day and Aldex Oled did not find that out until the Wayward was already in it. He had been proud of the contract. That was the part he kept coming back to, afterward, in the months that followed: not that he had been cheated, because he had not been cheated, and not that anybody had lied to him, because nobody had. He had been proud.
