The youngest son of the emperor dislikes the things he has had to do. Not only can he not follow his dreams but thing are about to get worse. The guards the nobles have forced onto his family turn and most of his family is killed.
Growing up on a pirate station was not easy. With the changes from pirating the station was dying. While doing an examination of a ship a new idea on how to take a ship came. First he needed men with no record and then they needed to leave and go hunting.
Ava was his mum's BFF. She was a beautiful petite 50 year old lady with a killer body. He was 30 years old, and single. She called him, wanting him to break into her husband's laptop - she suspected him of having an affair. What they found was much worse. He comforted her, and she seduced him.
The Baron seldom mixed with foreigners but this was a special case with the Lady Patricia and her charming companion, the beautiful Mistress Constance. Both women were in the prime of their sexual glory and they joined the Baron and his servant Flavio for a picnic under the hiding shade of a tall line of trees on the way into the tiny isolated town noted primarily for its delicious wine.
A story in the Karinaverse (Traveller) Universe
While giving her friend Heinz a ride home in her starship, space pilot Karina asks him to help her relieve her boob pain from lactation. Pregnancy ensues. (Part of the "Karinaverse".)
After moving away and finally not needing to hide their relationship, a brother and sister go out on a proper date and run into someone from their past. She'll keep quiet, for a price.