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Blood of the Prince - Omnibus

An orphan discovers he can wield ancient, mysterious technology but will pay a terrible price if he uses his wondrous skills to fight for his benefactor.

   As winter settles in an old man sits down to pen the tale of his youth. A sense of melancholy, of love lost, and the disappointment of labors performed in vain cloak his shoulders as he leans forward, the quill in the weathered knuckles of his hand hovering over parchment. Asking himself where it all began was unnecessary … time could not erase the flames that leapt in his mind’s eye.

   Herein contains Patrin’s complete first mission, Greater Things than Thou, All Things Ruin, and That Which Remains From his early childhood memories, kidnapping, salvation, and finally, the betrayal of his best friend.

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That Which Remains

As his mission draws to an end Patrin begins to ask himself what remains? It is a question not of direction, but of identity …

   Leaving the north country with Arbren’s word of help, Patrin, Xadik, and Ylva head to Arnkept, but Patrin believes that the Sentinels lurk in the shadows. Forced to chart their course across hundreds of unmapped miles of wilderness to reach the only safe haven, Northmarch, they find that their enemies have widened their net, and the only friends they have want to use them for a dangerous theft.

   If they survive, the Sentinels await them in Whitefield— and this time, they will not be denied their quarry. With no word from Galin, and the king’s army mustering against Arbren’s forces, the two friends prepare to walk into the lion’s mouth. For Xadik, it is his just service to the man who would be king, but for Patrin it is the end of his oath to a friend that betrayed him.

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The Modronovich Incident

There are inheritances people want. Then there are those legacies no one wishes to bear …

   The Modronovich, a cargo ship testing a prototype Newtonian drive, loses contact on its shakedown cruise. It was briefly seen, overdue and far off course, and then never heard from again.

   Two-hundred and fifty years later, Penelope Middleton walks into Spaulding Recovery Services with a copy of a garbled transmission recorded by her grandfather, a communications technician serving aboard Capella Station during the Modronovich’s voyage. Haunted by childhood memories of him as a paranoid, broken man that spent the last century of his life in depression, and the enigmatic partial transmission, she hires Spaulding’s pilot and wreck diver, Beatrice, to unravel the mystery of the Modronovich and answer the questions surrounding her grandfather’s breakdown.

   Chronicled in Bea’s diary it is the story of a cover-up decades in the making. What she finds leads to the disturbing details that caused two generations of PTSD and depression, the divorce of Penelope’s parents, and the truth about what happened to the ship and her crew.

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Year of the Child

  
All cops know a mystery starts with a lie …

   MISAKI— Two months have passed since the destruction of Harmony dome, and Misaki, guilt ridden over her desperate act of sabotage, returns to the place of healing that she knows best … the Sadie.  Mat accepts a contract on the far flung moon of Ganymede, hoping that time and distance will heal him of the nightmares from his own wrong doing.

   TETSUYA— Disreputable, former detective Tetsuya Takahashi is reassigned as the Lead Investigator for out-system piracy. Despite his reputation, his work is part of who he is.  He knows all mysteries start with a lie, and his investigation begins to lead him closer to finding Misaki Iriyama … who reminds him of his lost daughter.  His answers lie at Ganymede.

   ALEXANDRIA— Her plan has succeeded.  The destruction of Apex’s plant has caused a loop-hole in the restrictive UN law that once prohibited the selling of raw ore to the Martians.  Then suddenly, word comes from the new mining base on Ganymede- something has been found in the ice, something puzzling and unnatural that has been buried since the time of David.  More surprising is the fact that Alexandria seems to already know of its existence.

   SHULTZ— With the construction of the new Apex plant on Deimos, and the end of the ore embargo, Mars is entering a ‘bubble economy’.  Governor Shultz and Lt. Governor Jung finally feel like they are doing their jobs for the Martian people. But, using the Free Mars Now movement like a tool for their own agenda has made them powerful enemies.  Even as Shultz and Jung ride the heady days of making Mars free of UN greed they know those days are numbered.  Colonel Compton is slowly putting together the pieces of the puzzle that will link them to the terrorist attacks.  They must plan for a future Mars knowing that their own demise is soon to come.

   COMPTON— The failed attempt to ambush FMN terrorists at Cydonia Depot cost seven of his people their lives, and Compton is facing a possible court-martial. The families and friends of those that died alongside his soldiers do not believe their loved-ones were terrorists, and the news media has ahold of the story.  But, the embattled Lieutenant Colonel knows his duty.  With no leads in one hand, and a hanging mob in the other, he must somehow find the head of the Free Mars terrorists and cut it off.

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