Xandra's Legacy — Peter Salisbury

What could motivate an elderly but incredibly rich widow to fight to her last breath in a personal vendetta against The Association, the most powerful commercial empire in the galaxy? Xandra, a wily senior with more years behind her than ahead, warns her assistants that Association assassins are only minutes away, but they choose to ignore her, with disastrous consequences. That same day Johann had left his home planet to travel the Pan-Orion Spaceway in search of new challenges. He was young, newly qualified and full of shiny expectations, so his chance meeting with the eccentric and evasive, but dying Xandra tore at his heart. The promise of adventure, however, was irresistible.