BOOK ONE OF THE PURSUIT SERIES - A YOUNG ADULT SCIENCE FICTION SERIES and "I was fooled by a twenty-one-year-old girl in a ballgown, corset, and a petticoat. and "Claire is a princess-turned-space-pirate-queen. She wants nothing more than freedom not only for herself but for those that she holds most dear. Garnet is a devoted Galactic Force troop. She is embarking on her first mission as captain of a starship in pursuit of the dream that her father failed to achieve. Both want something more than their current world can't give them. Both want to get away from their lives back on Earth, and both think that the dreams they're chasing are the key to that. When their paths cross, they will soon learn that what they think they want and what they actually need are two vastly different things.