Volume One of the three-volume The Serrano Legacy Omnibus series, comprising 7 books:

Bk 1) Hunting Party: Forced by a treacherous superior officer to resign from the Regular Space Service, Heris Serrano finds employment as "Captain" of an interstellar yacht, working for eccentric Lady Cecelia de Marktos. When she stumbles across a sinister hunting club however, she ends up fighting for her life.

Bk 2) Sporting Chance: Heris Serrano's skills are called upon once again. Lady Cecelia has volunteered herself and her yacht to return Prince Gerel home from the "hunting club" Heris found him in. When the Prince begins acting strangely, Cecelia suspects foul play - who is poisoning the heir to the throne?

Bk 3) Winning Colors: Booted from the Fleet on trumped up charges after saving a villainous superior from catastrophe, Heris Serrano has been marking time captaining the deluxe interstellar yacht Sweet Delight. Now, Heris has been offered a chance at vindication and reinstatement in the Navy. All she has to do is save the galaxy from an interstellar mafia gone berserk.

The Familias Regnant is the name of the government of an area of the galaxy in the distant future-in the Serrano series.

Set in a universe where longevity treatments are beginning to have an impact on society, this seven-book series combines political intrigue both internal and interstellar, space battles, military infighting, horses, hot-air balloons, and a fairly serious consideration of the effects of long life and immortality on any society which finds a way to have them.