Devi Morris is a space mercenary with an expensive power suit and a driving ambition, and to achieve that ambition she sign up with an outwardly unremarkable trading ship that nonetheless has reputation for getting into trouble that surviving a year on board could be enough experience to get her onto the elite Devastators. The crew is the usual bevy of misfits including two aliens and a sort-of psychic and a cook so handsome the hard-bitten Devi starts to drool all over her battle armour at the mere sight of him. Yes, it's sort of a mil-sf Fireflyesque space romance, girl in terrifying powersuit meets space cook and falls into the gravity well of his sheer awesomeness. At first fighting savage battles with alien space pirates barely registers as an inconvenience, but there are terrible secrets lurking in the nondescript spaceship and they start to take their toll and may threaten the universe and make carrying on a merc/cook relationship difficult-to-impossible.

All very entertaining and enjoyable. Unfamiliar as I am with the romance genre, I found those bits slightly more alien than the invisible space lobsters, but the whole thing was fun and intriguing.