Spotlight on THE GHOSTS OF TRAPPIST By K.B. Wagers

OVERVIEW

NeoG—the Near-Earth Orbital Guard, a diverse military force that patrols and protects the solar system, inspired by the real-life mission of the Coast Guard—and the crew of Zuma’s Ghost are under attack, and shocking truths are about to be exposed.

 

What the black takes should stay in the black.

 

Ensign Nell “Sapphi” Zika has been working hard to get past her trauma, but the unnerving pleas for help she’s hearing in the Verge and the song she can’t get out of her head are making that increasingly difficult. As Zuma’s Ghost gears up for a final run at the Boarding Games, their expert hacker is feeling anything but confident. Plus, her chief’s robot dog, Doge, is acting weird—a computer problem she can’t find an answer to—and the increasing number of missing freighters is putting everyone living on or stationed around Trappist on edge.

 

It doesn’t help the NeoG’s mission that Dread Treasure is sidelined from competing in the Boarding Games, and Commander D’Arcy Montaglione is stuck on the front lines of the mystery of the missing ships while also stuck in his own head. Never good at trusting people to begin with, he’s struggling to piece together his new crew in the aftermath of a great betrayal, knowing this may be his final chance at command. The last thing he wants to do is prove his enemies right and end up getting shoved behind a desk and forgotten. The easy answer to missing ships is pirates, but D’Arcy soon realizes the easiest answer is rarely the right one out in the vacuum of space. What’s worse is that the actual pirates fear something out beyond the asteroid belt. Something that’s been taking their ships too…

 

As the unknowns multiply and one of their mysterious enemies escalates by launching an attack on the NeoG itself, the Interceptor crews must brave both cyber and outer space to hunt down their foes, but no one is prepared for the truth that is revealed or the way it will shake the foundations of everything they believe about the universe.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

K.B. Wagers is the author of the Indranan and Farian War trilogies from Orbit Books and the NeoG

Adventures from Harper Voyager. They are a fan of whiskey and cats, Jupiter Ascending, and the

Muppets. You can find them on Twitter @kbwagers and Instagram @midwaybrawler for political

commentary, plant photos, and video game play-throughs.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Harper Voyager

Hardcover | 9780063115163 | $32.50

eBook | 9780063115187 | $14.99

Audiobook | 9780063115194 | $38.99

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Forged by Blood by Ehigbor Okosun

In many ways, this is a love story.   A love story between individuals but also a love story for one’s people and one’s nation.   It is also a love story with nature and fantasy and with one’s roots as well.  Demi’s people are downtrodden due to their magic.  Magic is genetically based and can only be used if the genes are viable.   Non-magic users fear and oppress the magic users. 

The book starts with Demi meeting Jonas under stressful circumstances.   Their relationship is truncated by treachery.   Demi and her childhood friend Colin, use their magic to try and gain benefit for a noble who has magic but has achieved success by hiding his roots.

A journey that has plenty of deceit, tragedy, and treachery as well as plenty of action puts Demi and Jonas at a crux of both their relationship with each other and with their races and nation.

I look forward to the sequel and highly recommend the book. 

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