With its fast-paced narrative, action-packed battle scenes, and likeable, youthful main character, military-sf readers will enjoy this one.- Booklist on Orphan\'s Test Maeve uch Robert, daughter of Robert ap Morgan, had always heard the stories of her family\'s connection to the emperors of old. .. . or just one more pretender soon to die? She\'ll just have to wait and see what this young heir, Hugh Cascade, is made of, before deciding to risk her life or let him lose his . . .
Could this be her chance to escape .
Then a ship approaches claiming to carry a true heir to the throne.
Every day, she fears being found out.
Now an orphan, years later, she finds herself hiding as an enlisted spacer on a rebel ship. . .
Then Morgain strikes again .
To protect Maeve, Robert plans to enroll her safely in the Imperial Fleet Academy.
She\'s been trying to claim the crown for herself ever since a coup attempt killed the current emperor and wiped out most of the court.
But her sister, Morgain, clearly did.
Not that she really believed them.
With its fast-paced narrative, action-packed battle scenes, and likeable, youthful main character, military-sf readers will enjoy this one.- Booklist on Orphan\'s Test Maeve uch Robert, daughter of Robert ap Morgan, had always heard the stories of her family\'s connection to the emperors of old
