Forty Thousand in Gehenna, together under the title
Alliance Space. I’m going to review the novels separately since that’s the way they were originally published and can still be purchased. However, I love that you can get them both in one Kindle edition or one 22-hour long audiobook! The narration by Daniel Thomas May works well.
In Merchanter’s Luck we meet Sandor, a good-looking, slightly dishonest, 27-year-old merchant with a tragic past who lives on a tiny 150-year old spaceship. Sandor was born and raised on the ship — it’s pretty much all he has left. But he can’t run it by himself and his last crew member just jumped ship. So now he’s in a bar, in port, trying to find someone to hire who’ll work cheap.