The Red Scholar's Wake: A Xuya Universe Romance - Aliette De Bodard

\nWhen tech scavenger Xích Si is captured and imprisoned by the infamous pirates of the Red Banner, she expects to be tortured or killed. Instead, their leader, Rice Fish, makes Xích Si an utterly incredible proposition: an offer of marriage. \n \nBoth have their reasons for this arrangement: Xích Si needs protection; Rice Fish, a sentient spaceship, needs a technical expert to investigate the death of her first wife, the Red Scholar. That's all there is to it. \n \nBut as the interstellar war against piracy rages on and their own investigation reaches a dire conclusion, the two of them discover that their arrangement has evolved into something much less business-focused and more personal...and tender. And maybe the best thing that's ever happened to either of them-but only if they can find a way to survive together. \n \nA rich space opera and an intensely soft romance, from an exceptional SF author. \n \nAdvance Praise for The Red Scholar's Wake: \nSo romantic I may simply perish. -Tasha Suri, author of The Jasmine Throne \n \nLESBIAN SPACE PIRATES. Enough said. -Katee Robert, NYTbestselling author of Neon Gods \n \nThe Red Scholar's Wake is a fizzingly inventive space opera, quite unlike anything I've encountered before, and told with style, grace, and a big dose of heart. SF is lucky to have Aliette de Bodard. -Alastair Reynolds, Sunday Times bestselling author \n \nThe Red Scholar's Wake takes you on an exhilarating dive into space piracy with passion, politics, dazzling settings, and-even better-a profound core of love transcending hopelessness that rings throughout the story. -Everina Maxwell, author of Winter's Orbit\n