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by TS Hottle

While on shore leave in an orbital city, Connor Duffy meets a mysterious Gelt woman who entices him into a night of passion. But she has more than pleasure on her mind. Her name is Shrian, and she has discovered an alien device that can transport a ship across light-years instantly. And she wants him to have it. There's a catch. Under Realm law, she's in bondage to a Gelt trader whose family Duffy knows very well. He will have to free her, then convince the Compact to give Shrian political asylum.

But it doesn't end there. While taking the device out for its first use in the field, Duffy and Shrian encounter the aliens who created it. They want it back. And they're not above killing to make their point. Duffy and Shrian must figure out a way to give the aliens what they want. Because while they're missing in action, the Compact of Humanity is tearing itself apart.

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Sci Fi, Sci Fi - Alien Races, Sci Fi - Aliens, Sci Fi - Distant Planet, Sci Fi - First Contact, Sci Fi - Galactic Empire, Sci Fi - Military, Sci Fi - Space Exploration, Sci Fi - Space Opera

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author - american, format - book, format - kindle, format - novel, format - novel <100K, format - paperback, format - series, potential trigger - death, what - topic - politics, what - topic - science experiment, what - topic - technology, where - non-Earth planet, where - spaceship, who - occupation - engineer, who - occupation - military, who - occupation - spaceship captain, who - type - altered human

Tropes: Alien Artifacts, Alien Ruins, Ancient Astronauts, Conspiracy, First Contact, Found Family, FTL, Galactic Civilization, Immortality, Interspecies Romance, Interstellar Travel, Reluctant Hero, Space Battles
Word Count: 80000
Setting: Compact of Humanity and neighboring entities
Languages Available: English
Series Type: Continuous / Same Characters
Tropes: Alien Artifacts, Alien Ruins, Ancient Astronauts, Conspiracy, First Contact, Found Family, FTL, Galactic Civilization, Immortality, Interspecies Romance, Interstellar Travel, Reluctant Hero, Space Battles
Word Count: 80000
Setting: Compact of Humanity and neighboring entities
Languages Available: English
Series Type: Continuous / Same Characters

About the Author

TS Hottle is the creator of the Compact Universe, a series of loosely connected novels and novellas set in a confederation of human worlds as they deal with a disastrous first contact with a similar species known as the Gelt. By day, he is a software developer. He lives in suburban Cincinnati with his wife Candy.