Book One of the Matson Kar, Information Entrepreneur, Series. 

Maston meets a true AI, Aware Intelligence Computational Entity. Rescues the sister of the Chatelaine Queen, who is being hunted by corporate mercenaries. Their adventures lead them across the void, hiding, and fighting, making a difference in their own not so small way. A thiller with surprises set in a sliver of the galaxy where humankind has scratched out a new existence.