Captain Jani Kilian had been Evan Van Reuter's lover eighteen years ago, when a Commonwealth diplomatic corps, sent to establish peaceful relations with the alien idomeni, took sides in a civil war. Jani was presumed killed in the ensuing bloodbath, and Evan went on to become the Commonwealth's I...
For eighteen years, Captain Jani Kilian has been hiding from her bloody past. Now she faces trial for what she once did, what she knows now, and what she has become.Eighteen years ago, she was saved by a radical--and illegal--medical procedure that added alien genetic material to her own. But her...
A human-alien hybrid with a bad reputation, former captain Jani Kilian emerges from 18 years of hiding only to immediately find herself an important player in the Commonwealth's delicate dealings with the alien idomeni, and at deadly odds with the top powers in politics, finance, and crime.
The triumvirate of John, Val, and Scriabin, sitting atop a scrollcase like the three monkeys. Hear no truth, see no truth, speak no truth. The unlikely pairing of Niall and Lucien, precipitated by Niall’s need to stay informed and Lucien’s desperate bid to breach the inner circle. And then there’...
Humanish seldom did business there in person—both Brondt in his Service uniform and Eamon in his Elyan-style overshirt and loose trousers drew attention from the passengers and crew members who walked the concourse. Jani, however, managed to trump them both by virtue of her propitiator’s overrobe...