HFY Humanity's Finest

Human conscript Tess Corwin has one objective: keep her squad alive long enough to get home. When her unit is deployed onto a contested alien world as escort for a Sporewind trade negotiation, the mission looks routine — until the ship lifts off without them and a living biotank tears through the treeline. They were never the escort. They were the distraction. Cut off, hunted, and trapped inside a...

In a galaxy of ideologically pure alien civilizations, one human trader holds the key to survival: the instinct to form unlikely alliances. Elias Fortier, a human independent trader, steps off his ship the Cinderman onto the neutral station called the Lantern. There, he encounters the Photaris diplomat Vexis being of coherent golden light offering a formal greeting and the aggressive Skarrik, who...