A Deal in Her Pocket

Star's royal brothers bailed out after WW2, leaving her in charge. Now she discovers that a woman who's running a nation has to be careful about looking for love. How many Mr. Rights does she have to dig up, before she can find one that makes everybody happy? And Mack, her favorite Mr. Right, can see that he's not number one with her government. Employed by the CIA, he's got too many irons in the fire. Brenda W. Clough is the first female Asian-American SF writer, first appearing in print in 1984. Her novella 'May Be Some Time' was a finalist for both the Hugo and the Nebula awards and became the novel Revise the World. Her latest time travel trilogy is Edge to Center, available at Book View Café. Marian Halcombe, a series of eleven neo-Victorian thrillers appeared in 2021. Her complete bibliography is up on her web page, brendaclough.net