Only Kira can prevent a stellar civil war.
When Captain Kira Elsar comes face-to-face with a military assault mech inside a civilian research lab, it’s abundantly clear that MTech is up to no good.
Illegal alien nanotech experimentation. Clandestine political dealings. Disappearances. Connections all trace back to MTech’s newest research lab on Kira’s homeworld.
As the Tararian Guard’s sole telepath, Kira goes undercover to get to the bottom of the mystery. Hints point to a brewing stellar civil war, but she needs to gather proof. Except, the mysterious forces behind the conflict already have their own plans for Kira that will change her life forever.

The FALLEN HEROES (THE MASTER)

The deck vibrated as the jump drive charged. A haze of shifting blue- 


green light—a spatial distortion—formed around the ship. The light 


intensified as the ship slipped into subspace. Time elongated for a moment as 


they made the transition, and then the starscape was replaced by a sea of 


Navigation beacons were positioned at most worlds—sometimes multiple 


—but the Elvar Trinary had done its best to remain separated from the Taran 


Empire. There was only a single navigation beacon nearby, located at an 


intermediary point between four systems, one of which was the Elvar Trinary 


of Leon’s birth. Two of the other systems were uninhabited and used for 


resource mining, but the third had a permanent ban on entry. Leon wasn’t 


sure why, but he’d been taught from a young age to avoid Gaelon. 


The subspace jump to that exit beacon would take a little over two hours, 


and it would then take the better part of a day to reach their destination at 


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