Second Arrangement

She had read the letter three times and still hadn't answered it. That was how Commander Ysabel Crane lived now—on a northern estate with a collie and a drawer full of things she was going to return to. Later. There was always a right time.Then the sealed packet arrived.At fifty-one, Ysabel is the empire's most decorated retired commander—spent by an institution that used her brilliance to end a w...