Author M.D. Cooper brings us back to his Aeon 14 universe with Rika Outcast. In the first few chapters we see what happened to make her the mech that she is and then the book jumps to after the war. There we find Rika on a station at the back end of the area of space where she had once battled in but she doesn't get the chance to rest since she had to work off some medical treatments. She goes out with a friend from work who has fallen for her only to be captured my the local mob boss and sold to the Marauders. Once she is awoken on the planet where she was shipped to Rika makes friends with her new team while this is going on the Old Man who authorized buying her forgot to send a packet to her CO saying that she only has to work off half her debt. Also while this is going on the man who asked her our joins the Marauders in order to find her. This is a great military science fiction book and one that I highly recommend.