A starship has fallen to Amargosa during a failed liberation attempt. JT Austin, Davra Andrastie, and Eric Yuwono will disobey orders to join a mission to reach the survivors. They will join Suicide, Ellie Nardino, and Connor Duffy, but they will also join five former war criminals. Worse, they are pursued by wild animals that may be something more, dodging elite Gelt troops and human renegades. But a mysterious Gelt prisoner may hold the key to ending the occupation. But along the way, the team will lose two members, including two of the children of Amargosa.This expanded edition includes Among Wolves, a novella that tells what really happened to Ellie Nardino.And reveals an unexpected ally in the liberation of Amargosa. TS Hottle is a science fiction writer originally from Cleveland. By night, he writes, cooks, golfs, plays video games with his future stepson, and fights with a cat named Tearyon. By day, he is a software developer. Sometimes, he wins against the cat, but not often.For fifteen years, he wrote crime fiction under the name Jim Winter. Now he has returned to his first love, science fiction He has created The Compact Universe, a series of loosely connected space opera tales centered around humans' disastrous first contact with a species known as the Gelt.He lives in the Cincinnati suburb of Deer Park with his fiancee Candy and her son. When not writing or cooking, they both can be found fixing up their newly purchased Cape Cod. Which has a deck. Which makes TS very happy.
