Stars of Blood and Glory (36 page)

Thousands of years
after mankind’s exodus from Earth, a young starship pilot and his
accidental bride wander the stars in search of a homeworld in
Star Wanderers: The Jeremiah Chronicles (Omnibus I-IV).

PART I: OUTWORLDER

When Jeremiah arrived
at Megiddo Station, all he wanted was to make some trades and
resupply his starship. He never thought he'd come away with a
wife.

Before he knows it,
he's back on his ship, alone with his accidental bride. Since
neither of them speak the same language, he has no way to tell her
that there's been a terrible mistake. And because of the deadly
famine ravaging her home, there's no going back. She's entirely at
his mercy, and that terrifies him more than anything.

Jeremiah isn't ready to
take responsibility for anyone. He's a star wanderer, roaming the
Outworld frontier in search of his fortune. Someday he'll settle
down, but for now, he just wants to drop the girl off at the next
port and move on.

As he soon finds out,
though, she has other plans.

PART II: FIDELITY

Oriana Station: a
bustling frontier settlement between the Outworlds and the Coreward
Stars. A popular port-of-call for free traders and independent
starfarers alike—and the latest target in the aggressively
expansionist plans of the Gaian Empire.

Life was simple for
Jeremiah and Noemi before they arrived. Though neither of them
speak the same language, they've reached an understanding that goes
beyond words. But when the colonial authorities make them into
second-class citizens of a fractured empire, even that might not be
enough.

Their newfound friends
in the immigrant community can only do so much. With Noemi and her
people depending on him, Jeremiah must find a way back to the
Outworlds—before they lose everything that they came for.

PART III: SACRIFICE

When Jeremiah found
himself alone on his starship with an accidental bride, he had no
idea how much his life would soon change. Now, with Noemi's quiet
confidence supporting him as she carries their first child, it's
hard to imagine life without her.

But life in the
Outworlds isn't so simple. Good men are hard to come by, and
Noemi's friends expect her to share. As part of a colony mission
bound for an unsettled star, Jeremiah can't say no without causing
a rift in the community. But if he says yes, his new-found
happiness may soon come to an end. One way or another, he will have
to make a sacrifice—one that could tear their starbound family
apart.

PART
IV: HOMEWORLD

For years, Jeremiah has
wandered the stars in search of a home. With his wife Noemi about
to have a baby, he thinks he's finally found a place to settle
down. The Zarmina system lies on the edge of the Outworld frontier,
but together with their friends, they hope to establish a thriving
new colony. The only problem is that the system is already
inhabited—by pirates.

The colonists no sooner
arrive than they fall prisoner to Captain Helena and her band of
rogues from the New Pleiades. She gives them an ultimatum: live
like slaves on the planet's surface, or breathe vacuum. With all
their dreams about to be shattered, they have to find a way to
fight back. But to do so may endanger everything—including the
lives of the ones they love most.

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Thousands of years
after mankind’s exodus from Earth, a band of starfarers fight for
the freedom of the Outworlds in
Sons of the Starfarers (Omnibus
I-III).

BROTHERS IN EXILE

Deep
in the Far Outworlds, a derelict space station holds the bones of a
long-dead people—and a beautiful young woman locked in cryofreeze.
When the star-wandering brothers Isaac and Aaron Deltana find the
sleeping girl, they soon realize that they are her only hope for
rescue. If they don't take her, then slavers certainly
will.

With
no way to revive her, they set a course for the New Pleiades in
hopes of finding someone who can help. But a storm is brewing over
that region of space. After a series of brutal civil wars, the
Gaian Empire has turned its sights outward. A frontier war is on
the verge of breaking out, and the brothers are about to be caught
in the middle of it.

They
both harbor a secret, though. Somewhere else in the Outworlds is
another derelict station—one that they used to call home. That
secret will either bind them together or draw them
apart.

COMRADES IN HOPE

War has come to the
Outworlds. An Imperial expeditionary force has taken the frontier
systems and threatens to strike at the heart of the New Pleiades.
The only thing standing in their way is a ragtag flotilla of
starfarers and merchanters, their motives as varied as the stars
from which they hail.

Aaron Deltana can
barely speak the same language as his Outworld comrades, but he
isn't about to let that stop him. Though he has no military
training or combat experience, he's determined to prove his valor.
Besides, the Imperials have taken something very dear to
him—something that he has sworn to take back.

He isn't the only one
with a score to settle. Mara Soladze, the only other Deltan in the
Flotilla, has vowed revenge on the Imperials for killing her
father. Where Aaron hopes to prove himself, though, Mara fully
expects to die—and her fate is tied to his.

Aaron
isn't prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice, but when the war
turns against them, it looks as if he may not have a
choice.

STRANGERS IN FLIGHT

For countless
ages, Reva Starchild has slept in perfect cryostasis. Frozen in
secret to escape a catastrophic death, she awakens only to find
herself the sole survivor of a people whom history never
remembered. Light-years from her homeworld, among a culture she
finds both perverse and obscene, she must somehow build a new life
for herself where misplacing her trust could be fatal.

With nowhere safe
to run, she finds refuge on a small starship with a mysterious
young man who seems to be fleeing something as well. Where others
have sought to enslave her, though, he treats her with unexpected
kindness. As they slowly open up to each other, she learns that he
too carries a burden—one she can barely comprehend.

Isaac Deltana
indeed carries a burden. The failure of his mission at Colkhia has
brought untold calamity to the Outworld forces and almost certainly
led to the death of his brother. Now, he flees from the Gaian
Imperials to prevent them from obtaining the secret technology he
carries—one that will change the face of interstellar war
forever.

Little does he know, the Imperials aren't the only ones
hunting him.

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