The Cost of Business: A Dragonfire Station Short Story

Mercenary Warfare

Not all good guys finish last.

Cabot Layne has become the owner of someone else's problem. In order to get free of it, he'll need to use every bit of his trader cunning. If he does it just right, he might stay out of prison. With a little luck, he'll even manage to turn a profit.

He's given up his old ways--mostly--thanks to his cushy life on a PAC space station. But behind his mild-mannered shopkeeper's facade, he's hiding a whole lot more.

Sometimes you have to break the rules to do the right thing.

The Cost of Business is a quiet story of cleverness and empathy. For some heroes, wits are much stronger than firepower.

**Books in the Dragonfire Station universe in written order: **

(each series is self-contained and need not be read in order)

**Dragonfire Station Book 1: Translucid **

**Dragonfire Station Book 2: Fragments **

**Dragonfire Station Book 3: Coalescence **

***(series complete) ***

**Intersections: Dragonfire Station Short Stories **

**Mercenary Warfare Book 1: Selling Out **

**Mercenary Warfare Book 2: Blood Money **

**Mercenary Warfare Book 3: Hell to Pay **

**Mercenary Warfare Book 4: Calculated Risk **

**Mercenary Warfare Book 5: Going for Broke **

***(series complete) ***

**Chains of Command Book 1: New Blood **

**Chains of Command Book 2: Blood and Bone **

**Chains of Command Book 3: Cut to the Bone **

Chains of Command Book 4: Out for Blood

***(series complete) ***