The treaty buys peace with brides. This year the Warlord refuses the one he is owed and takes the saboteur who crippled his flagship instead.
Sera Kade runs the human crew licensed inside the aliens' fusion plant. Three days ago she gutted General Dazek Vor's warship from the inside and left her blood behind.
He tasted it.
"I have tasted you. There is no mile of this coast I could not walk to you."
He does not want a bride. He wants the saboteur, in his citadel, under his terms. She signs to finish the job from inside. He signs to break the resistance through her.
Genre: Science Fiction
Sera Kade runs the human crew licensed inside the aliens' fusion plant. Three days ago she gutted General Dazek Vor's warship from the inside and left her blood behind.
He tasted it.
"I have tasted you. There is no mile of this coast I could not walk to you."
He does not want a bride. He wants the saboteur, in his citadel, under his terms. She signs to finish the job from inside. He signs to break the resistance through her.
Genre: Science Fiction
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