Seven of Infinities

Seven of Infinities by Bodard, Aliette De. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781596069763.

Vân is a scholar from a poor background, eking out a living in the orbitals of the Scattered Pearls Belt as a tutor to a rich family, while hiding the illegal artificial mem-implant she manufactured as a student. Sunless Woods is a mindship and not just any mindship, but a notorious thief and a master of disguise. Shes come to the Belt to retire, but is drawn to Vâns resolute integrity. When a mysterious corpse is found in the quarters of Vâns student, Vân and Sunless Woods find themselves following a trail of greed and murder that will lead them from teahouses and ascetic havens to the wreck of a mindship and to the devastating secrets theyve kept from each other.