Second Lieutenant Juniper McCandless is acting security officer aboard the Elocution, a former luxury cruise liner everyone agrees doesn’t need security. Her team is the two officers nobody else wanted, her quarters are the size of a coffin, and the smartest voice in her ear belongs to an illegal AI who’s looking for freedom. Most days the job is corralling contraband monkeys and refereeing food fights.

Then her best friend is murdered—and the captain orders Juniper to guard the scene and wait for a real investigator to arrive.

Juniper isn’t waiting. Underranked, out of her depth, and completely on her own, she’s the only one who actually cares who died. Which might make her the only one who can find out.

A science fiction murder mystery with a cozy streak.