A Deadly Adversary. A Clash of Interests. A Colony at Stake.Bound by a vow of vengeance against the murderous and psychopathic Dr. Hayashibara, a fortuitous message from his cousin on her whereabouts takes Xerx and his crew to the distant orbital colony of Tophanavar. A charity Gestalt tournament becomes the cover for his crew's investigation into the colony's seedy dives to find his prey, who has left a trail of occupied hospital beds in her wake.Meanwhile, Paige, the captain of the Shadow Star, is wracked with guilt when her newest job may rob the Reckless' neophyte captain of his long-hunted quarry. But in the depths of the colony, all is not as it seems. The cagey Doctor is a master of deception, leaving one of Xerx's crewmates ill, and the enraged captain desperate for a revenge that may tear apart cherished relationships.Can Xerx trust his friends, uncover the Doctor's true plans, and save a thriving colony?|A Deadly Adversary. A Clash of...

A New Captain. An Untested Crew. Will Fortune Favor the Reckless? Xerxes Paraska is a champion in the G1 Leagues enjoying the sweet life with his wife, Neela and trusted crew, crushing his opponents' mechanized warriors in the stadiums with his prize Gestalt, Imani. But one fateful night, on what was supposed to be a shakedown run for his newly bequeathed warship, the Reckless, his penchant for bad luck drags his slightly dysfunctional family into a myriad of near-fatal misadventures. Run-ins with a mysterious assailant and the hazards of flying in an untested vessel then bring forth enemies old and new. Will the neophyte captain survive this harrowing night of frying pan and fire, or will he and his crew succumb to the dangers that await them in the wild blackness of space?|A New Captain. An Untested Crew. Will Fortune Favor the Reckless? Xerxes Paraska is a champion in the G1 Leagues enjoying the sweet life with his wife, Neela and trusted crew, crushing...

Talante, for 10,000 years has governed his clan like a father in the endless war with their hated enemy over the fate of humankind. One winter’s night, he chances to meet Amelia Grayson, a human whose blood arouses his desire, and whose presence arouses his compassion in a way no mortal ever has before. Distracted and terrified by all but alien emotions and instincts by this burgeoning bond in a prelude to what may be his clan’s most desperate hour, Talante is caught between duty and desire, until he is forced by choice and circumstance to decide whether to hold to the one he has grown to love more than his immortal life, or in spite of the cost, let go for the sake of his people and Amelia’s safety, in spite of twofold danger: one from a ravenous enemy that has hunted her kind for millennia … and the other from the seductive bond that would make her forever his, body and soul.