Trading in Danger (2003) is the first novel in a new Naval SF series. Kylara Vatta is a member of a well respected trading family on Slotter Key. Despite, or maybe because of, her family's efforts to dissuade her, Ky is a senior cadet in the planet's spaceforce academy. She has exchanged rings with Hal, who has been trading the top class position with her since they joined the academy.