A Dark of Endless Days

Things are never so bad they can't get worse. For the Brightstars they just did.

Laren Brightstar knows his family's in serious trouble. If he doesn't finish building the heat exchanger before Opposition's heat sets in they'll all perish. Then what little money they have is confiscated and he's hauled off to territorial prison in a midnight raid, leaving his teenaged son, Dirck, responsible for the family's welfare.

Above everything else, Dirck is acutely aware that none of this would have h...