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A Mutiny of Pirates: Being an account of the Damn Shames and the search for the treasure of Chalcedon

The Damn Shames, a group of bikers-turned-pirates, find themselves at the center of a search for a legendary pirate captain’s treasure–a quest made deadly by politicians, privateers, and the uncaring vacuum of space.

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Riph

It’s not often Riph’s compass spins so wildly. He’s finding
it hard to concentrate on anything but the way Fray’s hair is spilling off the
operating table. It’s less disorienting to focus on the exact curve of each
individual strand than to focus on the fact that a complete stranger is
operating on his Regent’s brain out
in the middle of nowhere.

Some part of Riph knows he should be thinking about being
Regent instead of Proxregent. But he’s not thinking about that. He’s thinking
about everything he’s always thought Fray knew, but that he’d never actually
told her. He’s thinking about what will happen to the little family they willed
together out of a bunch of Navy misfits. He’s thinking about—

Without meaning to, he slips into a trance.

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haven’t done this in a while, but – look, I got to chapter 10! that counts for something, right?!