Sometimes a dark past can haunt you. Other times it just may be the only thing keeping you alive. Fresh out of college with his Ship Engineer 3rd-Class certificate, Dave Walker’s only thought is to try to find a berth on a corporate ship plying the trade routes between the many habs, orbitals, and moons in the Solar System. The problem for Dave, however, isn't his straight C average; it's that his stepfather, a powerful Earth Senator he’s never met, now wants him dead. Forced to take the first berth he can find, Dave ends up on the Iowa Hill, an old tramp freighter running with a minimal crew and nearing the end of its useful life, plying the routes that the corporations ignore and visiting the kinds of places that the folks on Earth pretend don’t exist. Between the assassins, the criminals, and the pirates he needs to deal with, Dave is discovering that there are a lot of things out there that he still needs to learn. But there’s one hard lesson he learned long ago that he’s being forced to remember: how to be ruthless. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

This is the story of a genetically created worker in the future. Working the dangerous jobs that humans no longer wish to do in deep space, she finds herself in a bad situation after a failed 'takeover' attempt by the captain of her ship. Effectively a POW with no one to redeem her, she now has to pay off her accessed portion of the damages, and POW's do not get the good jobs...

As the Corporations head Assassin, a hold over from the days of the Corporate Wars, Jotun is now finding his days strangely busy once again. While he welcomes anything that gets him out of the gilded cage the company keeps him in he doesn't question much, but as a genetically designed and labratory bred animorph his choices are few, between the competitors who want him dead, the company that doesn't exactly trust him, and the job that will eventually kill him.

A collection of short stories that were written years ago for a couple of different anthropomorphic fanzines, but primarily Yarf! Includes the following short stories: Changes: The hero of the story wakes up in the morning to find his world has changed, rather drastically for him, hardly at all for others. Old Business: This is from my ‘Children of Steel’ universe, it’s about the beginning of it all, the very first of the sentient animen (or animorph) ever to be created. New Beginnings: Jack is the new bartender at a small pub, a nice quiet pub in the business district. The patrons tend to find his opinions humorous, as what does a bartender know after all? (More of a slice of life type story). Fox Hunt: A joke that I just could not resist.Easy Money: What happens to spies who come in from the cold? Especially ones who grew up on the wrong side of the tracks? Nothing good I’m sure...

This is the story of a genetically created and modified worker in the future. Working the dangerous jobs that humans no longer wish to do in deep space, frontier worlds, and corporate 'takeovers'. Based on the forms of different animals, the lives of these workers are sometimes brief, often times violent. But when all is said and done, they try to make the best of the life they have.