Bound by Blood

The President is dead.

The outer colonies are in revolt.

One man will make himself Emperor.

The Commonwealth must stop him...or fall.

In the chaos after the death of President Barnes and the revelation of his betrayals, Brad Madrid has been imprisoned because of his relationship to the pirate known as the Phoenix. His relationship takes on a new edge when the Phoenix declares himself Lord Protector of the Outer Worlds--the unquestioned dictator of a nation born to wage war against the Commonwea...