Fugitives' Gamble

by T.M. Catron

An imperial inspection, a pirate raid, and a spacewalk… and that's just before lunch.

Captain Rance Cooper prefers being called anonymous transporter instead of smuggler, but the heiress-turned-fugitive has a knack for finding trouble. Stranded inside a battle zone, Rance must decide which is worse - turning herself over to the authorities for protection, or fighting off a horde of angry space pirates.

*Note: This story first appeared in The Expanding Universe Anthology, Volume 3.

59 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 20, 2018

About the author

T.M. Catron is the Star Streaker series and various short stories. Her stories tend to include strong female characters (or those who want to be strong) and fun, twisty plots.

Catron enjoys reading, writing, camping, hiking, and really big cups of coffee. Find her at tmcatron.com where she posts snippets of upcoming books and occasionally emotes about writing. Or connect on Facebook at authortmcatron, and Twitter @tmcatron.

Currently, Catron lives in Tennessee with her husband, son, and three spoiled dogs.

T.M. Catron also writes as Alex Bratton and Wilhelmina Kirk.

Reviews

[Slugpuppy3 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Breath taking action as Captain Rance and Solaris/Roote battle to escape a space station. Did I mention pirates and Unity soldiers?

[The Mysterious Reader · Rating 5 out of 5]

T.M. Catron’s Star Streaker stories are a totally fun universe to play around in, and Rance Cooper is just the ideal character to do it with. That’s exactly what we get in her Fugitives' Gamble: A Star Streaker Story. Action, adventure, strong characters in a well-built story universe. Not much more you could ask for. This book definitely delivers. But for the fact that I’m literally dictating this review to my husband from my hospital bed I could go on and on with praises - the book definitely deserves it. Since I can’t do that I will simply note that the book is most definitely one to read, it is easy to highly recommend. I’m definitely looking forward to more Star Streaker stories.

[Christinaraven · Rating 5 out of 5]

A fun short story about Rance and Solaris/Roote on a space station trying to do business and of course they run into trouble with both Unity and pirates showing up. Now they have to escape with a ton of action that made me laugh at the problems they seem to find. I enjoyed the story a lot.

[Julian White · Rating 3 out of 5]

A pleasant short story that packs a lot of action into a small space.