Okay you book addicts- got something that will hook you within the first 10 pages.

Ann Aguirre's been working on this series for a while now and I only stumbled upon it last year because I was in search of something new to read with a strong heroine as the protagonist. It's almost sad to say that I let the Sirantha Jax series sit on my shelf for at least 6 months before bothering to pick it up.

Stupid move on my part- I'd have been enjoying the excitement of space much sooner.

Sirantha Jax is a jumper- born with the special j-gene needed to navigate the beacons of the universe to jump from one spot to another instantaneously. It's a blessing and a curse for her since the sensation of jumping is as addicting as any chem drug.

She was enjoying the thrill of life as a nav-star discovering worlds and repairing the space-guiding beacons when it all went to hell. She lost her lover and her mind when the passenger ship she was jumping crashed to oblivion.

Convinced she's a plague-bringer, she is confined to a psych facility where she is drugged and made to relive all the horror of the crash, night after night. Until a man breaks into her cell to get her the hell out of there. That's when the fun begins and she finds herself wondering if she was safer in her cell than playing follow the leader with this strange man.