What do you do? When your orders are morally reprehensible but you can’t ignore them without ruining your career and that of every crew member on board. When you know you’re being manipulated but can’t prove it. And when you’re asked to close your eyes at the time when only seeing means to stay alive.
Last Frontier: Book Seven of the Rim Chronicles
by Edita A. Petrick
Genre: Science Fiction | Fantasy
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There’s only one man who makes Dr. Karin Vexley supremely uncomfortable, and he has just transferred to her ship. Finding out this nasty bit of news, is a revelation and a warning. Karin wants to shut out the former and ignore the latter. The child prodigy has packed a lot of accomplishments into her tender twenty-one years, but shutting out the man who says she looks like a gorgeous angel, is not going to be one of them.
Those two seemingly innocuous words, gorgeous angel, threaten to unleash a flood of memories that Karin does not want to deal with. It’s what her father used to say to her mother. It’s the last thing child-Karin remembers of her parents on that fateful day on Dracken’s World, when they took the (speedy) ride down a shaft on their way to work — as mining engineers.
Today, Karin is a Chief Medical Officer on the latest Devon-class prototype starship, the UGS Trevor Meridian. Her friend, Kitaya, serves beside her – often literally since all Fleet crew members are encouraged to train for double or triple classification. Their current mission is as curious as it’s troubling. It will take them to the most dangerous and volatile region in the Federation-held starfields, the Neutral Zone. It is a space corridor filled with leftover wreckage from the battles and skirmishes that had gone on for hundreds of years. It is a strip that separates the free worlds from those captured by the dreaded Shoultain enemy; a marine race of humanoids that, in spite of their obvious physical differences, are not that much different from humans. Once there, they’re expected to do something that makes everyone on board – including the Captain, Gallen DeWynter, acutely uncomfortable.
Their orders are to hunt for and capture as many enemy crew patrols as possible. The Federation has layers and layers of strict laws dealing with treatment of captured enemy crew. But those who are waiting in the wings for the Meridian to carry out her questionable mission, aren’t concerned with ethics. And they certainly aren’t concerned whether such a dangerous mission will be without casualties.
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Outcast: Book Four of the Rim Chronicles
by Edita A. Petrick
Genre: Science Fiction
The more you back away from a conflict, the closer you’re getting to war…
She’s many things. A foundling, a princess, the last of her line, the first of the nameless order. She’s an orphan and grew up in a jungle. She’s homeless because a royal palace doesn’t fit. She’s trained to be a crack trooper, but she’s an even better friend. You could spend eternity reading a list of what she is. What she’s not, is an average human. After all, she was brought up by hundreds of mothers… and they’re all frontier gods.
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Dark Alliance: Book Five of the Rim Chronicles
by Edita A. Petrick
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
One giant conflict. One traitor to light the fuse. And one tiny ship to stop it all…
For the past five years, Kitaya DeWynter has been a virtual prisoner on her mother’s home world, Bollidor. Very little human contact was permitted. Although she was enrolled in a fleet academy, she had never set a foot in classroom. Her battle skills were polished in a simulator. Her friends were holograms. Her graduation was a distance-learning affair. Her friend Karin is the only one who understands the need to escape and sail out there among the stars. She secures an assignment for both of them.
As first assignments go, it is mundane… or so it seems. They are to be part of a taskforce that will provide escort to a drone convoy carrying supplies for worlds that lie on the other side of the Neutral Zone — in the enemy’s backyard.
It is billed as the greatest humanitarian effort in the last thirty years.
In reality, it’s a test and a trap — and they both know it.
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Stratton: Book Six of the Rim Chronicles
by Edita A. Petrick
Genre: Science Fiction
To an enemy with an impressive lifespan, one failed campaign is not an obstacle. It is a challenge.
It took millennia for Earth to join the galactic community. Some thought the long wait was worth it. Some thought… otherwise. And while the Earth did get to wear a name-tag of “Core” world, the title was more ornamental than functional. After all, the Confederation Alliance of Planets and Star Systems was already six-thousand years old when Earth finally climbed on board.
To Karin, Shakespeare’s plays are classics, twelve-thousand years old. To Kitaya, the Rimworlder with Caritan roots, they’re incomprehensible collection of metaphors. To Alvin, the prototype AI who runs the STRATTON Space Post, they’re simply an infrequently retrieved data collection he stores in his vast memory.
Karin has spent her life being youngest and the best at everything. Then again, she’s barely out of her teens. Kitaya is equally brilliant but has to hide it because she’s a telepath with extraordinary abilities. Something brought the two together on a distant frontier post, when they were thirteen. It could have been fate, or it could have been the Mistress of the mysterious tribe of frontier gods who have been hiding on the galactic rim.
Individuals with even marginal telepathic ability are barred from serving in the Fleet. But that’s precisely what Kitaya wants — to be a pilot, and drive a starship. Karin helps her to get the first field assignment but once that tour of duty is carried out, she knows it’s time to hide — for both of them. The Stratton Post is a glorified trading post that lies in a narrow stellar corridor. It’s run by Fleet personnel which makes it a perfect hiding place for Karin and Kitaya. It’s not a starship, but it is a Fleet installation. Service on Stratton Post is entry-level but it qualifies as Fleet service.
They barely settle down to figure out their next step, when a shocking news rocks Stratton. Twenty-six years ago, the Allied President and his entourage of galactic movers and shakers, had tried to sign a treaty with a world that was slowly being swallowed by the pirates and warlords of New Hebrides. That attempt ended in horrendous tragedy. It seems that the Federation wants to try again to do what they failed to accomplish, in such spectacular fashion — sign the hugely significant treaty on a totally insignificant space post, Stratton. Once again the conditions are just right… for those who want to see this event succeed and for those who want to see it fail.
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Rim Chronicles Books 1, 2 and 3
by Edita A. Petrick
Genre: Science Fiction
It’s a galaxy at war.
In Rimwords Conspiracy, Book One of this science fantasy fiction, Ahrun Dyem fights for her people’s survival on her planet of Hettamir against the space pirates who threaten to take over. Tragedy ensues and in Book Two, an Ally princess races to freedom with her newborn. She turns for help to the Treetop Witches who are forbidden to interfere with human destiny. In Book Three, much time has passed and the frontier gods try to prevent a human child’s return to the Allies, but her telepathic power lets her escape. Will this spell triumph or tragedy for a galaxy at war?
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