Requiem for a Ruler of Worlds Audiobook (Free)

Mankind was starting its third leap into the Galaxy, but Aged Earth had such a long time kept to herself that her individuals were unable to travel safely among the rough-and-tumble ethnicities that had evolved on distant worlds. That irritated Earth’s rulers, for Hobart Floyt–a minimal Terran bureaucrat– have been remaining a inexplicable inheritance from the deceased ruler of a small but rich interstellar empire. Globe was dirt-poor, and the federal government wanted Floyt’s inheritance; but to collect it, Floyt would need to travel to the Reading from the Will…many light-years away! And so Alacrity Fitzhugh–a young, but seasoned spacer–is blackmailed into shepherding this naive Terran on the dangerous interstellar pursuit.