Venus Prime
Venus Prime is a series of six science fiction novels written by Paul Preuss, based on characters and locations in Arthur C. Clarke's short stories.
The stories involve Sparta, a beautiful and mysterious woman with advanced abilities, the product of advanced biotech engineering. But the memory of the last three years is gone, and Sparta attempts to recover her past, and save her future.
Some of these have been taken from the book descriptions available on Amazon. Parts of the descriptions have been removed, as they are the same for all books.
After her sudden escape from a mental institution, an amnesiac who calls herself Sparta seeks out the origins of her unusual abilities. To this end, she adopts the identity of Ellen Troy and becomes an inspector for the Space Guild.
On her first assignment as an Inspector, Sparta is sent to Port Hesperus, the space station orbiting Venus, to investigate the sabotage of the Space Queen, an old freighter. While there, she encounters Blake Redfield, a young antique books expert who may hold the key to her missing memories.
After taking a break on Port Hesperus, Sparta is sent to Venus proper to rescue a team of scientists who have become trapped there. Her successful rescue leads to the recovery of an artifact that may prove the existence of extraterrestrial life. Afterwards, she is sent to Luna to investigate the attempted sabotage of the local magnetic slingshot.
Meanwhile, seeking to help Sparta learn more about her past, Blake goes undercover in Paris, infiltrating the Athanasian Society, a supposed charity that provides shelter and other services to homeless youths. After getting in, Blake confirms that the society is a front for the Free Spirit, the cult that was responsible for making Sparta more than human.
Sparta and Blake are deployed to Labyrinth City, the glass colony on Mars, to investigate two murders that may be connected to the theft of the "Martian plaque", an artifact that proves that Mars was once inhabited.
The pair split up, with Sparta tailing one suspect, Dr. Khalid Sayeed, and Blake tailing the other, trucker Lydia Zeromsky. Things do not go as planned, however; Blake's efforts to investigate Zeromsky soon get him embroiled in the political intrigue of the local unions, while a plane ride with Dr. Sayeed ends with an explosion that nearly kills her.
A third murder leads them both to the real culprit, an assassin hired by the Free Spirit, and from there, Sparta manages to deduce the location of the missing plaque, leading to a race against the Free Spirit's operatives.
...
Wikipedia