Packet Trade

Tropical adventures. A rag-tag sailing crew. Running off-grid data servers? Sounds legit.Devi Jones is a year away from graduating with a Computer Science degree and it’s internship time. But usually the ship part isn’t quite so literal. She gets hired by Really Remote Desktop, a cloud data storage company that keeps their servers in odd places, like the bilge of a hundred-foot sailboat. How can a homebody like Devi step on to a boat with six strangers and sail away from everything she has ever known? All while trying to do her best at her first real job? Being in a tropical paradise helps - but only until things start to go wrong.

Darusha Wehm is the author of the Devi Jones’ Locker series and is the editor of the crime and mystery journal Plan B Magazine. She is also a published poet. Writing as M. Darusha Wehm, she is the author of five published science fiction novels, including the award-nominated Andersson Dexter cyberpunk mystery series. Her short science fiction has been published in many venues, including Escape Pod, Mothership Zeta and several anthologies. She lives in Wellington, New Zealand after sailing down the west coast of the Americas and across the Pacific Ocean with her partner, Steven, on their sailboat, Scream.