K. Gerard Martin Bücher

Can a girl of mixed English and French aristocracy find success in a male-dominated world during the Napoleonic War era? Meet Lily, headstrong and determined to serve no man. She grows up and starts a business of her own in England despite pressure against women. Lily falls in love with Captain Kent, but the evil of Andre DeVille threatens her and her family fortune, which can only be resolved in bloodshed.

Claus Gerhardt travels to the lunar far side to help find missing Astroosa astronauts. He finds aliens named Carinians, is sold at auction as a pet to one such Carinian named Lanietta, and from there struggles with Lanietta over the moon's and Earth's future.