The Last Horizon
by Anthony Hartig
Nikki Wells wasn’t exactly the girl next door; street-smart, sassy, and tough, she was a girl with a heavy reputation. A smuggler by trade, Nikki took on the deal of a lifetime by contracting with a crime boss to haul contraband to a planet filled with mining colonies light years from Earth. She stood to make a fortune from this run, but there were a few hooks in the deal: first, she had to bring the crimelord’s envoy for the product on the trip, and second, she had six days to make the delivery over an impossible distance, and the only way Nikki was going to make the schedule was to go through a wormhole that few people believed existed. Under the glamorous lights of a distant planet’s nightlife, Nikki would soon discover that the journey through space was nothing compared to the journey she was about to take into an underworld filled with kidnappers, murderers, and a kingpin operating the largest drug and sex slave ring in a city called Fluture. And this was only the start of her problems--the envoy wasn’t who he appeared to be, and the cargo she was hauling was much more than she was led to believe…