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THE BOOKS
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DEFIANT
Volume III of The Lightship Chronicles
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Peter Cochrane and his new wife, Karina, have been married less than a year. And although things have been quiet with the old Empire during that time, they're about to get a lot hotter. Peter and Karina find themselves on a diplomatic mission to Korivar, an old ally of Pendax, the newest member of the Union. But during their mission the government of Korivar attacks Peter's new command, Defiant, and tries to assassinate him and his new wife. Peter responds the only way he can, with all the power at his disposal to protect Karina and Defiant.
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But Defiant is quickly called away to Skondar, where Peter's old flame Dobrina Kierkopf and her new ship Impulse II has come under attack by the Butcher of Carinthia, Prince Arin. Defiant chases away the prince, but soon Peter finds himself racing towards the mysterious world of Altos, where he discovers an unpleasant truth about the Union's allies, the Historians of Earth.
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Arin escapes Peter and the Union Navy fleet pursue him to the ancient Imperial home world of Corant, where the two men battle over the future of humanity; Union, or Empire!
IMPULSE
Book I of The Lightship Chronicles
A remote solar system...
A fragile galactic alliance...
An interstellar war on the brink of eruption...
When the Union Navy Lightship H.M.S. IMPULSE is attacked without provocation, Lt. Peter Cochrane, son of the Grand Admiral, is sent to investigate.
On his first deep space mission, this isn't what Peter had planned for. Surrounded by strangers from a foreign world and following secret orders, is he willing to do what it takes to keep the alliance together? Even mutiny?
The crisis at hand becomes something much more when IMPULSE’s rogue Earth Historian leads Peter and his shipmates into a galaxy of the unknown -- of ancient technologies, age-old rivalries, new cultures, and unexpected romance. It’s an overwhelming responsibility for Peter, and one false step could plunge humanity into an apocalyptic interstellar civil war….
Book one in The Lightship Chronicles, a groundbreaking new action-adventure space opera from Dave Bara
STARBOUND
Book II of The Lightship Chronicles
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THE FIRST EMPIRE HAS RETURNED.
THE NEW GALACTIC UNION HANGS IN THE BALANCE…
The Lightship H.M.S. IMPULSE is gone, sacrificed while defeating First Empire ships the fragile new galactic alliance had hoped it would never see again...
For Peter Cochrane, serving as third officer aboard his world's flagship, H.M.S STARBOUND is a dream that's finally come true. Tasked with investigating a mysterious space station in a newly re-discovered star system, Peter and STARBOUND face a terrible attack. The wounds of that battle may heal with time, but the war is far from over as the First Empire returns, aided by new traitors from within the Union itself!
Coming January 5, 2016, from DAW Books (USA) and Del Rey Books (UK)
