Cover Text of Tripoint (hardcover)

The great powers are at peace - but private conflicts are eternal: witness the blood feud between the merchanter ships Sprite - crewed by the several hundred-member Hawkins familiy - and Corinthian, a ship suspected of trading with pirates and smugglers. But this rivalry isn't mercantile; it's fueled by Sprite Cargo Chief Marie Hawkins's vendetta against Corinthian Captain Austin Bowe, a burning crusade that has warped Marie's life, driving her half mad. When both ships dock at Mariner space station, Marie vanishes. Fearing that she is bent on vengeance - a vengeance that might jeopardize Sprite's trading status and future - Marie's 23-year-old sun Tom tries to find and stop her, only to be shanghaied aboard Corinthian.

Now Tom is trapped, destination unknown, on a starship speeding him away from all he has known, with no hope of rescue or return... held prisoner by a crew fanatically loyal to Tom's sworn enemy.

The man who, decades before, battered and violently raped Tom's mother.
Austin Bowe.
Tom Hawkins's father...