Kaine's Regret (Shattered Empire, #5)

Scimitar answers a distress call. The task force that sent it is already gone.

Debris. No survivors. No enemy on sensors.

Then the invisible ships open fire again.

Three years after surviving Oberon, Hayden Kaine and his crew are back in space - and something is hunting his ships the same way the Malliac did. Except the Malliac are supposed to be gone.

Meanwhile, Admiral Thomas's Confederation is tightening its grip on every system it can reach. And something worse is spreading through the netw...