Hot Wings and Sauciness by Cait Gordon

Colleen O’Donnell is a fifty-something neurodivergent and disabled electromech technician serving We’re Greater Than’s space hospitality division. She’s sweary, blurty, and goes nowhere without a constant companion—Fiona, her rollator. Colleen’s dear friend Brina is marrying Sharon. Their hen party will be at the Coq of the Walk exotic dance club and rotisserie, which boasts the best wing sauce in the solar system. Our heroine nearly flies the coop when she discovers she has to dress up as an actual hen! Meanwhile, everyone seems to be over the moon that Captain Joshua Speers, renowned war hero, has returned to the stations. Messages cry, “Captain Hot Wings is back!” Squeals abound! This means absolutely nothing to Colleen. She’s single and fine that way. Hot Wings can dip into someone else’s sauce, right? What are the chances she and Fiona would even bump into him? And if they did, would it amount to anything?

Adult • Science Fiction/Romance • Diversity Representation/Disability/Own Voices • Diversity Representation/Neurodiversity/Own Voices • Diversity Representation/Mental Health

Length: 55,000 words (about 157 pages)

Content Warning: This book has consensual sex, absurdist sexual situations (with our genuine apologies to those who like cold luncheon meats), classism, ableism, post-traumatic stress disorder, toxic capitalism, mentions of crimes against humanity, and it has a very sweary protagonist.