Fortune's Star

Interstellar Service & Discipline #2.5

by Morgan Hawke

Publisher's Note: This book was previously released as part of the Hard Candy anthology, which is no longer available. It has not been edited for this single edition.

In the heart of the Imperial Stars, past and future collide, as ghosts converge in battle for a fortune-teller’s soul...on Port Destiny Station.

Luxi Emery was perfectly happy with her position as the receptionist for Armored Media Corp. Then her hidden talent for seeing the future awakened--and exposed a black-mailing con-artist haunted by a malevolent ghost. It was a lose-lose situation, and Luxi had only a single shred of hope. Her future awaits on Port Destiny Station. A future intertwined with Amun, the handsome diplomatic telepath, and Leto, a ghost-haunted cyborg with very human carnal appetites. If they can resolve a few...intimate...details. Yet a darker future is chases Luxi: they are not alone, and Leto’s is not the only hungry ghost.

Genres: Science Fiction, Menage, Erotica, BDSM, Romance, Aliens, Ghosts

154 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 22, 2015

About the author

Morgan Hawke has been writing erotic fiction since 1998. She has lived in seven states of the US and spent two years in England. She has been an auto mechanic, a security guard, a waitress, a groom in a horse-stable, in the military, a copywriter, a magazine editor, a professional tarot reader, a belly-dancer and a stripper. Her personal area of expertise is the strange and unusual.

Reviews

[~ Lei ~ Reading Is An Adventure ~ · Rating 4 out of 5]

April 2019 Reread ~ Still ★★★★☆ ~ 4 Stars
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I originally read this in the Hard Candy anthology which is no longer available which is ok because this was the *star* of the anthology.

What a lovely cover.

From my old review:
This anthology was worth the money just for Fortune's Star, an excellent addition to Hawke's Star series. This is a reread story for me.

The Train Scene - need I say more?

ETA: I'll get around to writing more of a review next time I reread it.

[Pat · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love Morgan Hawke's books, wish she would write more. Fallen Star and Victorious Star are two of my favourite books.

[Sarah · Rating 4 out of 5]

I do love her older stuff!

[mlady_rebecca · Rating 4 out of 5]

A little different than the other stories in this series. It’s set in the same universe, though no mention of the Skeldhi or the Moribund company. Still, the same erotic mmf dynamic where the male characters open their existing relationship to the female character. Total power exchange dynamics, though not quite as pronounced here.

My biggest complaint: the promised breast bondage and suspension never made it on the page. Just like two more chapters would have satisfied that tease.

The Leto name clash didn’t bother me as much as I thought it might. Maybe because of the cyborg context.

I’d rank the books (favorite to least favorite): Victorious Star, Lost Star, Fallen Star, Fortune’s Star.

[Promise Pegasus · Rating 2 out of 5]

I skimmed a lot of this. It’s erotica, so I didn’t expect much in the way of plot, but I was let down because the author seems to be talented at word building but just dropped the ball in many parts. The sex scenes seemed random and abrupt—without anticipation or tension they felt hollow. I think there’s potential here so I’ll continue with the series. Hopefully in a longer book the world building can shine through.

Also, I’m confused. This book is #2.5 on GR but #1 on Kindle?

[Misti Britnell · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fast read

Good story. SciFi with ghosts, a fortune teller, a mind reader, and a cyborg. Decent steam. Swords do cross and there’s very mild bondage. End could have been a little better.

[Katerina · Rating 4 out of 5]

Love the universe. Love Ms. Hawke's sexy aliens. Love it love it love it..

[Vic · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.75 *

[Lauri McCloud · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sizzling hot hot hot hot 🔥

[Christine · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoyed the other other books in the "Interstellar Service & Discipline" series, and thought I'd give this one a try.

Luxi Emery's special gifts are a burden -- now she's on the run from a shadowy threat and goes to ground at Port Destiny Station, where she meets Leto and Amun. Leto's a cyborg, but Luxi easily senses the ghost within, as well as his deep affection for Amun, whom he serves and protects. As Luxi finds herself falling for the guys, she discovers that her special talents fit in well with Leto and Amun, and she begins to feel that her life may just be beginning at Port Destiny.

It's a Morgan Hawke book so there's loads of kinky sex in various combinations with various characters. And there's lots of action and suspense as Luxi, Leto, and Amun battle Luxi's pursuers. It's just too bad that it wasn't a little longer. In many places it felt rushed, so it was difficult to get any sense of connection with or among the characters.

But it's a fun and entertaining read, so 3 stars.

[Lina · Rating 5 out of 5]

I was thrilled to have discovered a Morgan Hawke book that I haven't yet read...well, I've read it now, but at the time of discovery, obviously, this was not the case, so celebratory one-clicking ensued. Then celebratory binge-re-reading of all the Interstellar Service & Discipline books, and then I dove in to this new treasure. Or Fortune. You get what I mean. I read the crap out of it. And I savored it, because Morgan Hawke doesn't write anymore and so I knew this was my last opportunity to read a new-to-me Morgan Hawke story. The story was really good. Nothing can ever live up to the chase in the beginning of Fallen Star, or its spectacular conclusion. Nevertheless, Fortune's Star was engaging and moved at a good pace with plenty of suspense to keep interest, as well as plenty of sexual tension and action.

[Carole-Ann · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the e-book from LooseID taken from the Hard Candy PB (which I have, lol :) )

And thank goodness, I now have an individual copy of the story which sent me on those Interstellar Service & Discipline stories - this is the ONE which made IT for me!!

Love Lexi, love Amun, and love Leto :) Fucking brilliant :)

[April · Rating 2 out of 5]

I didn't really understand how this was related to the other two stories in the series, excepting that they both took place in space in the future, most especially since it involved talents that had not previously appeared in the other stories and the species who had were noticeably absent. Also, I found it very hard to understand what was going on plot-wise, and I found it difficult to follow all the connections between the characters.

[Shona · Rating 3 out of 5]

Over all, this was readable if not revolutionary. It seems a bit different than some of the others in this series, and because of that I was hoping would suffer less from consent issues. I was wrong. The trope of the happy slave/indentured servant is also quite common to this series, but the characters seem too flat in many ways for this to truly be much more than Stockholm.

[R. Beach · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a very unique book starring a menage of a ghost in a cyborg body, a telepath Imperial Lord, and a young woman who could see possibilities and futures. The sex scenes were steamy hot. Leto, Arun, and Luxi were interesting individually and as a couple. Enjoyed the very unique plot.

[FoxieMoxie203 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not as good as the first three books in this series.

[Yogi Yogi · Rating 3 out of 5]

Wow, definitely the worst I’ve read by the oftentimes fabulous Morgan Hawke.

[Leefa Roe · Rating 5 out of 5]

this is my favorite in the series, with Fallen Star a close second