Milk Run

March 2, 2019 by Nathan

He looked dead to her
Then they said she did it.

Academy graduate Natalya Regyri stood first in line for her pick of Engineering Officer jobs, until a classmate turned up dead
at the graduation party. Now, betrayed by her friends and framed for murder, she must flee beyond the reach of the Confederation…and any semblance of civilized society.

With a damaged second-hand ship and TIC interceptors dogging her step, she nets a smuggling contract that might just get her back on her feet and in control of her destiny. But only if she’s willing to make an ore run back to the place she’s wanted for murder, and into the arms of the authorities…who somehow know she’s coming.

By Darkness Forged

March 2, 2019 by Nathan

Profits. Coffee. Extortion.
All in a day’s work.

When Ishmael takes the Chernyakova back into Toe-Hold space, he finds a lot more than profit.

A quick pass through the Telluride system reveals the answer to one question but leaves him wondering what to do next. Until the ship gets stuck without a cargo until the station owner makes him an offer he can’t refuse – to take a cargo to the pirate stronghold.

Will they even make it there? If they do, can they leave?

To Fire Called

March 2, 2019 by Nathan

A dead ship returns with a live crew.

Captain Ishmael Wang finally gets the Chernyakova out of the yard and embarks on a voyage into the Toe-Holds where the Confederated Planets Joint Committee on Trade has no authority. Where the law is whatever you say it is as long as you can enforce it.

Where he learns that some will do anything to hide their secrets and everybody has a secret.