Rebel Queen — Mimi Riser

A stubborn Federation officer on a mission that confuses even him.A vengeful cat-woman fighting for the freedom of her hybrid race. Two haunted souls, burning with desire and trapped at opposite ends of an uprising that's about to blaze into a galaxy-wide war. The time is the future; the place, the Milky Way. Terrans control the Galactic Federation, and the Federation controls everything. Non-Terrans are treated like second-class citizens, while hybrids have no citizenship at all. Genetically engineered by splicing human with animal DNA, hybrids are called "pets," but their real status is possession. Thus are sown the seeds of discontent to blossom into a rebellion that's almost uprooted in one awful act of betrayal. Four years ago, Jaxon Colby stole Cassie's heart, along with her virginity. Then he marooned her in the armpit of the galaxy while he sold out the rebels' leader-her father-to the Feds. But cat-people land on their feet. She survived, escaped, and rebuilt the Freedom Alliance. Cassie might have forgiven Jax for what he did to her, but she'll nail his traitorous ass to the wall for the rest of it. With a lethally sexy crew, and a scout ship with an outlawed F-drive, she intends to capture his battle cruiser-kind of like a hawk hunting an elephant. But capturing Jax is the easy part. Facing the lust he still stirs in her may destroy the last of Cassie's nine lives.