Love and LossSpyder expertly guides the combat-crippled spaceship Truth to a "safe" crash landing at the bottom of an Aargine ocean. A salvage ship owned by a powerful criminal snags Truth and Spyder's owner, the Lady Cassandra, negotiates safe transport for the ship's passengers--her slaves, her prisoners, and her revolutionary recruits--as well as the tools vital for her work as a Dominatrix. When Spyder finds himself swept up in a Piety Purist political plot to overthrow Abhinav Lanka's civic government, the Lady Cassandra enlists her other slaves--including a former assassin, an ex-military sniper, and a one-time thief--to rescue him. But the Pietists' determination to destroy the Lady Cassandra at all costs risks their lives and tests each of them. A BDSM erotica space opera, Spyder's Truth pairs dramatic adventures on worlds light years away in a far-distant future with the age-old battle between purity and pleasure--and those who use one as a weapon against the other.