Stephen Monteith: 3 books

When her father is incapacitated, a young girl must take over more than just his spaceship.

The first novelette in the highly acclaimed "The Trials of Seffin Phel" series. Seffin is a young man with a choice to make: stay the son of a blacksmith in a remote town of the Kingdom of Mer'cil, or seek out a man who could offer him a better life. There are dangers in what he seeks, though, and he may be swimming in waters that are over his head.

The second novelette in the Seffin Phel series. Seffin left his home to find something bigger; but now, the future he's chosen could lead straight to his doom. He's apprenticed to the greatest crime lord in the kingdom, and that association has landed him in the middle of a plot that could cripple...