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The Lady Widow: Death Among the Stars
Author: C. M. Lockhart
Release: January 2025
Sci-Fi / Fantasy
Space Opera
“This is not what I had in mind when we agreed ‘til death do us part’.” Kyra Johnson is married to an alien. At least, she was until he was murdered. Left with only his ship and a gaping hole in her life where her husband used to be, she takes to the stars with his crew as their unwilling captain. But grief isn’t a thing so easily discarded, and she’ll have to confront his memory — and the man who killed him — before she can face a future without him. And the best thing for heartbreak is revenge. - Cowboy Bebop meets Frieren and Star Trek: Discovery in this Black space opera about a grieving widow who becomes an intergalactic bounty hunter in order to avenge the murder of her husband.