Luna - The Adventures of Rhone & Stone

Luna, a totally awesome, genre-crossing, action adventure, gaslight sci/fi, coming-of-age, alien contact story, with a little steampunk thrown in for spice.

Rhone leaves his home in the desert badlands, and finds himself in the Capital Stronghold where the the big city styles take a bit to get use to. With Aundrea's help, he's enrolled in the OPR's academy, learning what it takes to be an effective agent.

Far too soon it's graduation, and time for his first assignment. The little harbor town of Corgy isn't much to look at, and while Rhone finds his cover story as one of the gentry can be useful, it can also create problems, as the mayor develops an instant dislike for him.
Then he discovers the little problem of pirates. As an agent, it's his job to fix problems, and with the help of Stone, his unique friend, and Bella, the erstwhile waitress at The Common House, Rhone develops an unexpected and rather up-lifting method to do just that.
Whether he survives it, is another matter.

Captain Black, of The Backwater Mistress has this to say. "If you could see the action, as from the eye of a bird flying over, you would be one step ahead of the game."
We'll see how that goes.

LUNA, book 2 of, The Adventures of Rhone & Stone.