It doesn’t help that this man who is hunting her, Richard of House Rockhurst, is an unsavory individual who has grudge against Loch. There’s a great deal of action throughout the novel as Ada is continually on the run from the man who would have her as his wife, the scion of the family her father set her up to marry. In other words, Polaris Rising is largely a Planetary Romance. While there are familial and dynastic politics that drive a great deal of the external conflict of the novel that drives Ada’s actions, the meat and heart of the novel is the relationship between Ada and Loch. So we have a budding romance between two characters, both of whom have a rather checkered past.

Her only hope is to strike a deal with the dangerous fugitive: a fortune if he helps her escape.īut when you make a deal with an irresistibly attractive Devil, you may lose more than you bargained for. When the ship returning them to Earth is attacked by a battle cruiser from rival House Rockhurst, Ada realizes that if her jilted fiancé captures her, she’ll become a political prisoner and a liability to her House. Known as the Devil of Fornax Zero, Loch is rumored to have killed his entire chain of command during the Fornax Rebellion, and the Consortium wants his head. To ensure she cannot escape again, the fiery princess is thrown into a prison cell with Marcus Loch. The spirited princess flees before the betrothal ceremony and disappears among the stars.Īda eluded her father’s forces for two years, but now her luck has run out. When her father arranges for her to wed a noble from House Rockhurst, a man she neither wants nor loves, Ada seizes control of her own destiny. As the fifth of six children, Ada von Hasenberg has no authority her only value to her High House is as a pawn in a political marriage. In the far distant future, the universe is officially ruled by the Royal Consortium, but the High Councillors, the heads of the three High Houses, wield the true power. Jessie Mihalik is an author to watch.”–Ilona Andrews, #1 New York Times bestselling authorĪ space princess on the run and a notorious outlaw soldier become unlikely allies in this imaginative, sexy space opera adventure-the first in an exciting science fiction trilogy. “Polaris Rising is space opera at its best, intense and addictive, a story of honor, courage, betrayal, and love. Do they get along? Cover Art by Tony Mauro

As a result, she finds herself in a prison with the most wanted man in the galaxy, Marcus Loch. The princess is Ada von Hasenberg and she is on the run with a bounty on her head. Jessie Mihalik takes that idea and transposes it to the far future of a galactic empire (or Royal Consortium, in this case) in her debut novel Polaris Rising. A young princess escaping an arranged marriage may be a familiar idea, though typically this might be associated with a fantasy story.

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