2018 Dragon Award Finalist for Best Military Science Fiction or Fantasy Novel
Human slavers attack. Despite trying to fight back, there is nothing the young Leefe can do to save his family and friends. But he doesn’t have to. The Imperial Marines arrive in the nick of time, and they hate slavers. Three tri-years later, when the new emperor issues a proclamation to integrate the imperial military with non-human citizens, Leefe is among the first to volunteer.
Integration to resurrect the empire as a force for good is challenged by centuries of prejudice against the "dung races." Leefe and the other Wyntonans only want to prove their worth and fight for the empire, but their greatest battles are closer to home.
With threats to the empire from both within and without, this grand experiment has the potential to save it….or tear it apart.
Author:
Jonathan P. Brazee
Jonathan is a full time writer, a USA Today bestseller, a two-time Nebula Award finalist, and a Dragon Award finalist living in North Las Vegas with his wife Kiwi and twin baby girls, Danika Dawn and Darika Marie. He is a retired Marine infantry colonel, so it is no surprise that he writes Military SF and Milfic, but he also has written paranormal, historical fiction, YA, and lots of non-fiction. Jonathan is a member of the US Naval Academy (Class of 1979) Alumni Association, the Disabled American Veterans, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Romance Writers of America, and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America where he serves as the Education Committee chairman.
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