Dark Tempest

by Manda Benson

Hijacking a woman's spacecraft is definitely not the way to win her heart. Gerald Wolff is a convict blackmailed into hijacking the ship belonging to Jed, a star Archer and descendant of one of the highest Blood lineages in the known galaxy, while he is but an outcast half Blood. Jed has found Equilibrium by adhering to a strict code. Wolff's intrusion into her ship and her life upsets the balance of her obsessively controlled world. His very presence confuses her, yet they must work together in order to discover why they are being hunted, and to stay one step ahead of their pursuers. Content sex, foul language, science

236 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

About the author

Manda Benson is a scientist and writer from the Midlands of England who has previously worked in research and taught science at undergraduate and A-Level. Manda's work includes:
Pilgrennon's Children, a technothriller series about an autistic girl with the power to mentally control computers and other devices, who discovers that she and a number of other children came about as a result of unethical genetic and technological experiments;
The Beasts trilogy, which explores a future vision of the age-old symbiosis between humans and animals, set in a meritocratic society where scientific advance has come at the cost of a widening gap between the haves and have-nots;
A handful of standalone science-fiction and thriller novels and novellas and middle-grade-children's novels and stories, and;
Numerous short fiction and nonfiction pieces in magazines and anthologies.

Reviews

[Nerine Dorman]

Author Manda Benson seamlessly blends hard science with the human element to create an edge-of-your-seat faster-than-light chase through the galaxy. Benson has created a vivid, gritty setting and is a fine force in the latest generation of SF authors.