The Rose and the Dragon

Nanny Wanted: Must have desire for excitement, adventure, danger.

It was like the plot of a Gothic novel: a young governess, her mysterious employer, his three motherless children…but there the story has a very different twist, for Dominic Andrus is an interplanetary criminal in a custody battle with his in-laws who are very dangerous indeed.

After one of Dom’s ships is bombed, he leaves Miranda with orders to speak to no one unless he bears the Andrus sigil of the Rose and the Dragon. That man soon appears; Dom’s brother Kitten—handsome, volatile, and nursing a secret anguish—and Miranda knows she’s met the man she’ll love forever. She and the children go with Kit, and…

…Miranda finds herself in something from a SF movie, as she’s swept up in a war with a madman intent on destroying not only Dom, his children, and Kit, but the entire Andrus family as well. Miranda wants to help but she doesn’t know how.

What can one little Earthling do to save the people she loves?