R L Stanley

The Alympa Chronicles R L Stanley

Starlight isn't the best ship in the Peacekeeper's fleet. Captain Oren knows this. He takes pride in it, because while his crew may not be galaxy-renown like he is, they're a family with potential-especially his bridge officers. Until a brutal blood feud seventeen years in the making rears its ugly head, and their ruthless puppeteer of a foe uses Oren's own crew as weapons, turning four crewmen into an unwillingly sleeper cell to do his bidding. Oren doesn't know who they are, how to detect them, or that they're even there-which is exactly how his opponent wants it. In the middle of everything is Rin, a rescued human abductee who's far more involved than she or anyone else realizes. In their brushes with death, Starlight's colorful and eclectic crew shows Rin that family lies in name, not blood, and that while the stars are beautiful, monsters lurk between them. And Rin may very well be one of them.