Little Red Ridden Hard. Ashes of the Streets - Ben Patterson

Red Marlowe keeps people alive.

It's a dangerous habit.

She asks questions. She doesn't get attached.

And she doesn't work cheap.

Hardon Ford was supposed to be a routine escort job.

A clean handoff. Easy credits.

Instead, his homeworld is collapsing under an alien hive intelligence that twists minds, seizes cities, and spreads without mercy.

Now Red is trapped.

And the planet is dying around her.

With her battle-hardened droid Crunch

and a crew of mercenaries who owe her more than money,

Red will have to do more than guard a client.

She'll have to take the fight to the hive's control source-

and burn it out at the root.

Because this enemy doesn't negotiate.

It doesn't retreat.

And it doesn't stop.

And Red Marlowe doesn't either.