She came to negotiate with a warlord who, by official record, died with his entire unit. He was very much alive — and already knew exactly why she was there.
Senior treaty negotiator Saya Cortez is dispatched to broker a ceasefire with Fleet Commander Zane Ren, whose strikes against the outer colonies follow a pattern that has nothing to do with resources or territory. In their first session, he gives her grid coordinates not on any Terran chart she was issued. She looks them up in a classified archive she should not have access to. The coordinates match an operation from seven years ago she helped classify — one with no supposed survivors. Zane was one of them. He knew exactly who they would send.
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Chapters
1Chapter 1: Approach2Chapter 2: The Chip3Chapter 3: First Knowledge4Chapter 4: What She Knows5Chapter 5: The Narai Passage6Chapter 6: What She Can't Say7Chapter 7: Subtext8Chapter 8: The Private Session9Chapter 9: What He Has10Chapter 10: The Distance Between Them11Chapter 11: Proximity12Chapter 12: The Directive13Chapter 13: She Doesn't Go14Chapter 14: The Threat15Chapter 15: What Comes After16Chapter 16: The Release17Chapter 17: A Ship
