Blood Orbit

Mercenary Drift

Seven thousand ships. One impossible debt. And enemies everywhere.

Centuries ago, humanity's first contact with the galaxy ended in catastrophe. Manipulated into triggering a weapon that killed billions, Earth was quarantined and sentenced to an impossible war debt — to be paid in blood, one mercenary contract at a time.

Now Captain Kade Soren commands the Hades Bloom, a battered heavy frigate crewed by three hundred void-born soldiers who've never seen Earth. They fight alien wars for alien pay, grinding down a debt that seems designed never to end. When a mysterious Kethran broker offers Kade fifty million credits to steal a data core from a Szareen black site, his instincts say trap. His ship's ledger says take it. His instincts were right.

What Kade pulls from that nebula fortress isn't just intelligence — it's proof that the Szareen are re-engineering the weapon that started humanity's exile. And back home in the heart of the Drift, the conspiracy runs deeper than alien territory. It reaches into the Drift Council itself.

Now Kade is hunted. His crew is wanted. And the ancient lie that damned the human race is starting to unravel.

BLOOD ORBIT is the explosive launch of the MERCENARY DRIFT series — six books of blue-collar military science fiction.