The Star Trader series

Erica Williams needs a second chance in life, but she will have to fight for it.   Erica has failed at being a Zen Buddhist nun after over a decade of training. She returns home to her large family's starship and their trading business on the frontier of known space.   The first thing Erica learns is the Starship Guinevere and her all-female crew have a price on their heads. Someone wants them dead. Who? Why?   The strange lizard-like aliens called Lorkiiz kidnapped Erica's mother and other women. What do they want?   One thing Erica learned as nun was how to fight, but will that be enough to save her and her family from this new threat?   If you loved the tv show Firefly, Andre Norton's Solar Queen books and Poul Anderson's David Falkayn books, and C.J. Cherryh's Chanur books; then get ready for a more space trading adventures with a gender bending twist.

Blood will spill across the stars. A NEW THREAT bursts upon the horizon for the STARSHIP GUINEVERE and the Williams clan. Martha Clarke, thief and con woman, has caught the eye of Erica Williams. But Martha is being hunted by a secret society of assassins based on the planet Yin, homeworld of the Yin Confederation. Erica talked her family into protecting Martha, who is a non-Yin outsider. Is Erica thinking with something other than her brain? Can they trust this con woman? Is there someone pulling the strings behind all of this madness?  Erica will fight with all her skills and training from the monastery to protect the woman she loves.  But will Martha Clarke fight by her side or run away? A battle begins between traders and assassins!

Space battles! Ninja! Evil aliens! Kung fu fighting!   The Williams clan is in turmoil after the death of its matriarch Captain Audrey Williams. Who will take her place? Erica Williams discovers that Ellie and Tawny are planning to assassinate her mother Alberta.   Alberta doesn't believe her daughter, until Ellie throws Alberta into the Guinevere's brig. Guinevere leaves Erica and Martha behind on in another star system. Alberta is broken out of the brig by her supporters.   Now Alberta must mutiny against her own family. The battle for survival begins! Sister against sister! A terrible fate, until the Lorkiiz aliens arrive to make it worse. The aliens come to conquer and steal the STARSHIP GUINEVERE   Alberta and her supporters escape in the rocketship Guinevere's Daughter, along with all of the family's children. They are chased from one star system to the next! Hounded by pirates that work for the Lorkiiz. They can find no help from anyone. Even family members on the homeworld won't help them.   They are cursed as thieves and kidnappers! Where can they find an ally? Where can they go? Alberta and her supporters are attacked by aliens, pirates, and even ninjas! This family of women must do all they can to find a safe home for their children before all is lost.