You can read more about Aria and her unexpected trip to the Middle East in The Prince's Pawn by Kristin McTiernan, available now in ebook and paperback https://amzn.to/3OvEBgW

Everyone thought I was religious since I wear long skirts and hoodies every day. I never corrected them because it's none of their business.

I wear what I wear because there are serious consequences for people accidentally touching my skin, and I don’t want to deal with a single one of them...

It’s not the same guy, by the way. That’s three separate Daves in three consecutive jobs that have brought me nothing but misery. At least the third Dave pays me well.

“So you want me to be the lead sales engineer… but I can’t actually talk to the client because I'm a woman?”

Dave nodded.

3 years later, I got my first sales engineer job, which was awesome. The not-so awesome part was that it came at half the market rate. The boss who low-balled me? Dave.
Now here I am, officially mid-career, being assigned to a sales demo in which I’m not allowed to speak. The boss responsible? Dave

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