The Refugee Ruse

The empire is falling. For a deserter and a con artist, that collapse might be the only way out.

Captain Landon Beck has given the Gaian Consortium ten years he never meant to give. So when the empire begins to crumble and scavengers overrun his remote prison station, he sees his chance to take back his life: let them think he died in the attack, slip away in a stolen shuttle, and vanish into whatever rises from the wreckage.

The plan does not include a prisoner. But Dhani Warlow — a small-ti...