The backstory of Cadet Lucinda Hardy, from her time as an orphan to her daring exploits during the Javan War.
The timeline of this novella shifts back and forth between Lucinda’s orphan days, putative “present time” during the Javan War, and her time at the naval academy, with a brain injury and memory reconstruction as a framing device. Fast paced and full of action, it is a solid bildungsroman.
