Ruled Out. Iron Hammer, #5

Danny and her people face a galaxy-spanning dilemma. Danny Andela, known as the Iron Hammer, and her allies are forced by the warlike Slavers to find a way to lead the Carina worlds to war.  Both war and universal leadership are abhorred by the scarred and abused Carina people, yet Danny needs a central authority upon which to build the military force they need to defeat the enemy. Danny realizes that she must find a way to protect the Carinad worlds on her own, but the work is not easy, for everyone thinks she is crazy and power-mad, including those people she considered friends and family.Ruled Out is the fifth book in the Iron Hammer space opera science fiction series by award-winning SF author Cameron Cooper.
The Iron Hammer series is a spin off from the acclaimed Imperial Hammer series, and features many of the characters and situations from that series. The Iron Hammer series:1.0: Galactic Thunder2.0: Stellar Storm3.0: Planetary Parlay4.0: Waxing War5.0: Ruled Out6.0: Stranger Stars7.0: Federal Force8.0: Redline RebelsSpace Opera Science Fiction Novel__Praise for Ruled Out:Fast paced read with plenty of action from bar fights to space battles.
Nail biter of an ending with a huge twist/reveal for the next book. Excited to see how this will play out. Insightful, detailed, perfectly crafted story which has day-to-day actions and amazing twists and turns. This world comes alive for the reader. Oh, wow! Cameron Cooper just keeps getting better and better! And this Iron Hammer series has become absolutely Un. Put. Downable!__Cameron Cooper is the author of the Imperial Hammer series, an Amazon best-selling space opera series, among others. Cameron tends to write space opera short stories and novels, but also roams across the science fiction landscape.  Cameron was raised on a steady diet of Asimov, Heinlein, Herbert, McCaffrey, and others.
Peter F. Hamilton, John Scalzi, Martha Wells and Cory Doctorow are contemporary heroes.  An Australian Canadian, Cam lives near the Canadian Rockies.