Bodyguard Blues: Proving Ground

By Ben Patterson

No One Touches the Asset

Rita Vance is used to being treated like the kid sister. She is not used to being underestimated on a live protection job.

What should have been a straightforward payday turns ugly when Rita is assigned to guard Arty Grrmf, a lizard-like barbecue mogul whose secret sauce is worth far more than anyone sane would believe. Criminals want it. Power brokers want it. And the wrong hands could turn one man's recipe into leverage strong enough to shift entire worlds.

Now Rita is stuck protecting a high-value client in the middle of a widening fight she never asked for.

Good thing she's armed.

With her heavy pistol, her smart-mouthed mech Crowbar, and a growing mess of allies and enemies closing in from every side, Rita has one job: keep the asset alive. But the deeper she gets, the clearer it becomes that this was never just about food. It is about power, control, and whether the people coming for Arty are stopped before the whole sector pays the price.

Her sisters may still see her as the one who needs watching.

They are about to learn better.

Bodyguard Blues: Proving Ground is a fast-paced sci-fi action adventure packed with danger, attitude, found family, and a heroine determined to prove she is more than up to the job.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GXJCY1TQ
• ISBN13: 9798257645716
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"