Davra Andraste, youngest captain in Navy history at 24. And one of the Children of Amargosa.
As she takes command of the Endeavour, the most advanced ship in the Compact Navy, she is handed the mission of a lifetime: Convince the Sovereign of the Gelt humanity is not His people's enemy. To do this, she will bring an emissary to announce His predecessor's murderer is no longer president, hand Him the means for His species to reverse their declining lifespans, and gift Him with quantum entanglement drive, which allows ships to move instantly across interstellar space. To accomplish this, she will need all the Children of Amargosa at her side, including JT Austin as her first officer.
But it hasn't been an easy road getting to the center of a ship's CNC. Alternating chapters trace her humble beginnings as a child soldier on Amargosa, her rise through the ranks in the Navy, and her relationship with fellow Child of Amargosa, Eric Yuwono.
TS Hottle is a science fiction writer originally from Cleveland. By night, he writes, cooks, golfs, plays video games with his future stepson, and fights with a cat named Tearyon. By day, he is a software developer. Sometimes, he wins against the cat, but not often.For fifteen years, he wrote crime fiction under the name Jim Winter. Now he has returned to his first love, science fiction He has created The Compact Universe, a series of loosely connected space opera tales centered around humans' disastrous first contact with a species known as the Gelt.He lives in the Cincinnati suburb of Deer Park with his fiancee Candy and her son. When not writing or cooking, they both can be found fixing up their newly purchased Cape Cod. Which has a deck. Which makes TS very happy.
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