Temperance was banished from the powerful Reed Family by her narcissistic bully of an older brother. Such an act comes with an unremovable glowing tattoo that makes it clear that she's not welcome in most civilized parts of the universe, so when the place where she found to land, the scouting ship Quest, sold off by its former captain, Temperance does the only thing she can — she goes into a massive amount of debt to buy the ship herself. Such debt leaves her unable to choose her clients for future scouting missions, which is why she ends up on a mysterious scouting job for the Escajeda Family. The Quest crew is ostensibly there to search for a rare but potentially game-changing mineral, though that doesn't explain their insistence on Arcadio Escajeda, second son of the powerful Family, riding along. And, unfortunately for the mission (but fortunately for her love life?), Temperance finds his smoldering good looks a bit too distracting in such tight quarters.
In recent years, romance and fantasy have spawned the poorly named "romantasy" subgenre, and Calamity is basically the science fiction equivalent (thank goodness there's not a mashup name for this subgenre yet). Fay manages to get the enemies-to-lovers romance trope just right, but the more science fiction elements are a bit rougher around the edges. Biggest complaint though is the massive overuse of the word "calamity," which started to lose meaning after a while. But I liked the worldbuilding though, and the characters are intriguing, and it was a pretty quick, easy read, so whenever the inevitable sequel comes out, I'll probably pick it up.
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