(Paperback)

The second in a new trilogy by the author of "The First Casualty." In the wake of the war between the Society of Humanity and the Unity Party, military ship Captain Inez Umboto and Lieutenant Terrance Tordon patrol the universe. In the no-man's land of Rim Space, pirates roam freely. Enforcing the peace will be costly.

(Paperback)

A bad space jump flings Longknife and Rodrigo's starship light-years away from home, and they find a planet inhabited by the descendants of a ship's crew lost 300 years earlier. As acting ambassador, Longknife is eager to welcome the planet's inhabitants back into the fold of humanity. But Rodrigo is suspicious, and she senses something amiss under the planet's veneer of peace and prosperity.