Margins
Freelance Courier book cover 1
Freelance Courier book cover 2
Freelance Courier book cover 3
Freelance Courier
Series · 3 books · 2020-2021

Books in series

Ace of Corpses book cover
#1

Ace of Corpses

2020

Gel looks like a Human teenage girl who somehow has her own spaceship and courier business. But the truth is she's an alien who only appears to be human and she has mad powers of teleportation that allow her to move people or objects to most any place she's ever been. There's just one hitch, her own people don't trust her and have put her on probation. Can she run her business avoid trouble, and not reveal her powers to outsiders? The current gig should be easy: The king of an alien world has died, his body mistakenly been shipped to another planet. All she has to do is collect his corpse and return with it before a deadline. It's a little creepy, but should be easy. But... the king isn't dead and he doesn't want to go home!
Ace of Saints book cover
#2

Ace of Saints

2021

Angela Colson can’t pay the repair bill on her spaceship and has no choice but to accept a dubious proposition: bring back a miracle from the hands of the alien Prophet of Containers and all her debts will be paid. Of course it’s not so simple. Her employer will telepathically know if she even attempts deception. The Prophet wants to recruit her to help get his message out to the masses. And an ancient intelligence wants her to alter that message to change the fate of a lost race. Along the way she'll get schooled by a professional liar, solve an epic problem of littering, and confront a religious mob accusing her of blasphemy and heresy! Ace of Saints is the second book in the Freelance Courier series featuring Angela (Gel) Colson, a teenage girl who only looks human but is actually a mutant variant from a race of teleporting aliens. Her people want her to settle down, stay out of trouble, and not use her powers. She wants to make her own way in the galaxy and live a life of adventure. And trouble? That just has a way of following her wherever she goes.
Ace of Thralls book cover
#3

Ace of Thralls

2021

Unbeknownst to the galaxy, an ancient race has enslaved an entire world for countless millennia. Now a single thrall has managed to escape and it's up to a teenage girl to help him free his people. But Angela “Gel” Colson only appears to be Human teen. She’s actually a mutant variant from a race of teleporting aliens and she's out to prove herself, but must do so without revealing her powers. Along the way she'll have to acquire a moon, win over a reptilian alien who threatens the future of the enslaved people she's trying to save, criss-cross the galaxy via ancient technology hidden in the soup atmospheres of numerous gas giants, and quite possibly upset the economic stability of a region of space. Ace of Thralls is the third book in the Freelance Courier series of Angela (Gel) Colson, a young entrepreneur with a knack for getting embroiled in galactic-scale issues and far flung adventures.

Author

Lawrence M. Schoen
Lawrence M. Schoen
Author · 30 books

Lawrence M. Schoen holds a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology, is a past Astounding, Hugo, and Nebula, nominee, twice won the Cóyotl award for best novel, founded the Klingon Language Institute, and occasionally does work as a hypnotherapist specializing in authors’ issues. He is a chimeric cancer survivor. His science fiction includes many light and humorous adventures of a space-faring stage hypnotist and his alien animal companion. Other works take a very different tone, exploring aspects of determinism and free will, generally redefining the continua between life and death. Sometimes he blurs the funny and the serious. Lawrence lives near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with his wife and their dog.

548 Market St PMB 65688, San Francisco California 94104-5401 USA
© 2025 Paratext Inc. All rights reserved