Valor in the Darkness

In this, the Third Volume of the Chronicles of the Earth Space Force:Torn between his fear of losing Earth Space Force Fleet Commander Laurie Denari, his alien lover, in a transporter power failure, and the need to defend Beijing, China from the rapacious z-Trin General z-Rikhet, the intrepid Vice Fleet Commander, Doctor Kenneth Harris faces down the General, and soon recovers his mate. But will Laurie still be the woman he loves, or has her personality been altered by the recovery process?Yet troubles are just beginning for the ESF, from the criminal Red Dragon organization on Earth, from the amoral Bentar Sen Gunatu of the Denari Expeditionary Fleet, and from deep space, where, unknown to the ESF, a predatory Krev Dokor speeds on course for Earth, its War Council intent on feeding their growing hunger.Can Laurie and Ken and their tiny Space Force fleet defend Earth against the thousands of Krev battleships, battlecarriers and Drek fighters approaching the Solar System? Will the Denari Expeditionary Fleet offer help against the Krev Dokor, or when faced with the Dokor that has been chasing them around the galaxy for two-hundred-thousand years, will they run? Robert Holt is a retired field biologist, having performed biodiversity surveys, and a former science teacher, having taught earth science, biology, chemistry, and physics at the secondary level. Beyond writing science curriculum and providing technical editing for science text books, he is currently working on two more anthologies of speculative fiction, and another novel. Robert's hobbies include nature photography and collecting fossils, rocks and minerals. Although he and his wife presently reside in the State of Washington, his mind is often somewhere out in space…well, after all, his father was from Alpha Centauri…But that's another story…