Chief Justice and former Head Diplomat Alba Espina is injured, on the run, and desperate.
Alba’s home system—and all of humanity—is in deadly peril, and the only surefire way to prevent a massacre is to destroy the alien’s portal mechanism. But for a 73-year-old politician whose expertise is more diplomacy than demolition, with no help but the ragged remnants of her diplomatic team, it’s a next-to-impossible mission. And there are aliens and humans both who will do anything, up to and including murder, to stop her.
Meanwhile, across the system, field-scientist Aran Romeu has finally tracked down the source of a cure for the deadly genetic disease that’s slowly killing his best friend—and it’s held by a mysterious and dangerous group of aliens known as raiders. But the problem with searching for a group of cannibalistic alien pirates is, you just might find them …
Genre: Science Fiction
Alba’s home system—and all of humanity—is in deadly peril, and the only surefire way to prevent a massacre is to destroy the alien’s portal mechanism. But for a 73-year-old politician whose expertise is more diplomacy than demolition, with no help but the ragged remnants of her diplomatic team, it’s a next-to-impossible mission. And there are aliens and humans both who will do anything, up to and including murder, to stop her.
Meanwhile, across the system, field-scientist Aran Romeu has finally tracked down the source of a cure for the deadly genetic disease that’s slowly killing his best friend—and it’s held by a mysterious and dangerous group of aliens known as raiders. But the problem with searching for a group of cannibalistic alien pirates is, you just might find them …
Genre: Science Fiction
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