Valentinian just wants to make a living hauling cargo between planets and stations. His new charter promises to be profitable, hauling an all-girl-band all over the Dominion. But trouble starts before they take off, and Valentinian has just hired a crewman with a shadowy past, big muscles, and the sort of military training that only the Dominator's Elite Assault Cavalry wields.

What else could possibly go wrong?

Longshot Hypothesis--the first novel in the new series, Shadow of the Dominion--is a fresh take on space merchants, space marines, and oh, yeah, hired muscle.

Be sure to be on the look-out for the other books in this series