Star Trek: Corps of Engineers: Ghost
Chapter 1
She was beat after a night of the kid doing the rumba on her bladder; the runabout smelled of too many people crammed into a too-small space. Scotty was just getting warm, telling Bart Faulwell the one about the Jenolen -- "though it was Franklin who came up with the notion of locking the system in a continuous diagnostic" -- and all Lense wanted was to crawl into a nice ice-box somewhere far, far away and catch sixty winks.
That, and maybe her job back.
Hunh. Lense let go of a long, slow sigh. That is so not going to happen.
Eight months pregnant and she was gonzo. Hasta la vista, babee, and turn off the lights on your way out, sweetheart, that's a love. Starfleet regs were very specific about the billets that would allow an officer to raise a newborn child, and Sabre-class vessels weren't on the list. She could keep the kid or keep the job, but not both.
Hell, Gold hadn't even waited until she was gone-gone. And she had trusted him. That little heart-toheart, his damn therapy, all that talk about family: You're not alone. You're par ... read full excerpt from Star Trek: Corps of Engineers: Ghost ebook
