Things were looking up for Jack. He and Kayla had married, were expecting their first baby and moved into a nice house on New Harmony.
Kayla was due to give birth any day, but Jack is pulled away on a case that could threaten their newfound happiness and the peace of their Alliance.
An alliance starship, believed to have been destroyed seventeen years ago during the war, has mysteriously appeared without its crew. Their investigation creates more questions than answers as it leads them to an unexplored star system where the war had never ended.
The Lt. Reilly series continues in this epic space adventure.
Order on AmazonReilly thought his career in the fleet was over after being injured and discharge shortly before the end of the war. But he now finds himself back in the fleet as an investigator tasked with cleaning up the corruption from within. What he discovers will send him and Major Mitchell on a chase for the truth and back into the crossfire.
Captain Rebecca Tansky is facing a court-martial. Reilly and Mitchell have to investigate why she went rogue and committed treason by violating a treaty with a planet that has the ultimate weapon of mass destruction. Reilly knows there is more than what meets the eyes, and they need to discover the truth before Tansky faces a firing squad and the Alliance is drawn into a conflict that they can not win.
The final prophesy for the Commander says that he must face a trail to stand before the oncoming darkness. Neither Roy nor Katreena knew what that would be, just that it would one day happen, and it would be the moment that would change everything, for it is the last of the prophet Queen’s predictions.