On the war-torn world of Daros, Sergeant Goran Minaret is ordered to escort a truckload of "diplomatic children" through rebel territory. When ambushes start, he realizes his mission-and the children-aren't what Command claims. At his side are Corporal Seta Tesco, a wry young Marine; a Darosi guide, Alwinno; and Zimmer Rogan, the red-haired operative whose secrets may doom them all. Hunted by Major Jaber Fencer, a zealot with a pet wolf and a cause that smells like madness, Goran must survive mountain roads, rural insurgents, betrayal, and the slow discovery that war's worst enemies may sit in their own command rooms.
What begins as a rescue becomes a reckoning-where survival itself proves the higher forgiveness.
On the war-torn world of Daros, Sergeant Goran Minaret is ordered to escort a truckload of "diplomatic children" through rebel territory. When ambushes start, he realizes his mission-and the children-aren't what Command claims. At his side are Corporal Seta Tesco, a wry young Marine; a Darosi guide, Alwinno; and Zimmer Rogan, the red-haired operative whose secrets may doom them all. Hunted by Major Jaber Fencer, a zealot with a pet wolf and a cause that smells like madness, Goran must survive mountain roads, rural insurgents, betrayal, and the slow discovery that war's worst enemies may sit in their own command rooms.
What begins as a rescue becomes a reckoning-where survival itself proves the higher forgiveness.