#62 You Sexy Thing by Cat Rambo

The Hive Mind doesn’t like to let soldiers leave but if they are dedicated to an art then they are allowed to retire. Niko Larson and the last of her unit are running a high-class restaurant on a space station and on the day a well-known critic is to arrive and rate them all hell breaks loose on the station. They grab a ride on a ship and the AI is convinced that they are stealing it thanks to the wrong password given as they boarded it. The crew ends up under the control of the worst enemy of Niko, who has planned this to get her under his control and exact revenge for being the only person to escape him before.

 

I enjoyed the book and hope there are more in this setting.

 

Digital review copy provided by the publisher through Edelweiss