"Wonderful addition to this futuristic series!"

Celie Cameron gave up her smuggling career when she immigrated to the new quadrant and decided to fly the straight and narrow as a regular freighter captain in her peacefully boring new home. But, as soon as she lands at the Joba settlement for a routine delivery, her newly forged existence begins to go haywire. Not only does she discover that the daughter of her friends, Nessa and Chase McKnight, has stowed away on her ship, but a routine delivery leads to a firefight that causes her to abandon her ship.

Thrown in with Max Rior and Rurick, one of whom is an android, Celie and her stowaway, Raven, become involved in unraveling a dastardly plot that goes to the highest levels of the government of the Verante Quadrant. And Celie becomes dangerously attracted to Rurick, though she's sworn that she'll never have a relationship with a man.

I loved revisiting Nessa and Chase from Shielder, Jarek san Ranul and Eirene from Shamara, and Moriah and Sabine from Shadower. Shadow Crossing is another gem to add to this beautiful diadem of stories. I particularly enjoyed the interactions and subplots of the secondary characters. I adored this book and can hardly wait for the next story in this wonderful series.

Reviewed by Nichole Keeton
Courtesy Old Book Barn Gazette
Posted March 10, 2003

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Summary

Ex-smuggler Celie Cameron meets her match in a mysterious android pilot, one who harbors surprising secrets of his own. Celie can handle the glaxay-spanning intrigue and deception into which Rurick throws her, but her attraction to him is another matter entirely. Forced together by circumstance, Celie and Rurick blaze across the galaxy, engaged in the oldest combat of all - the battle of the sexes.