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Her Brother's Keeper

DEBUT SOLO NOVEL FROM THE CO-AUTHOR OF DEAD SIX Air Force weapons expert Mike Kupari co-author of Dead Six and Swords of Exodus offers up a science fiction adventure When privateer Captain Catherine Blackwood is enlisted to rescue her brother from a treacherous warlord she finds herself on her most dangerous mission yet It&s been years since Catherine Blackwood left the stodgy repressive colony world of Avalon Now the captain of the privateer vessel Andromeda she is the master of her own destiny But Catherine soon finds herself back on Avalon after receiving a plea for help from a most unlikely source her estranged father esteemed Avalon Council member Augustus Blackwood It seems Catherine&s brother the heir to the Blackwood aristocracy has gone off in search of treasure on the failed
chaotic world of Zanzibar But Cecil Blackwood&s plans have gone very very wrong and he has been taken hostage and held for ransom by a fearsome local warlord Augustus knowing his daughter is the only one who can be trusted to return his son safely swallows his pride and hires Catherine to bring her brother home Catherine takes the job—but it won&t be easy Just getting to Zanzibar proves treacherous And once she arrives things only get worse If she is to save her brother Catherine Blackwood must face down danger at every turn and uncover a mystery four million years in the making
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DEBUT SOLO NOVEL FROM THE CO-AUTHOR OF DEAD SIX Air Force weapons expert Mike Kupari co-author of Dead Six & Swords of Exodus offers up a science fiction adventure When privateer Captain Catherine Blackwood is enlisted to rescue her brother from a treacherous warlord she finds herself on her most dangerous mission yet It&s been years since Catherine Blackwood left the stodgy repressive colony world of Avalon Now the captain of the privateer vessel Andromeda she is the master of her own destiny But Catherine soon finds herself back on Avalon after receiving a plea for help from a most unlikely source her estranged father esteemed Avalon Council member Augustus Blackwood It seems Catherine&s brother the heir to the Blackwood aristocracy has gone off in search of treasure on the failed chaotic world of Zanzibar But Cecil Blackwood&s plans have gone very very wrong & he has been taken hostage & held for ransom by a fearsome local warlord Augustus knowing his daughter is the only one who can be trusted to return his son safely swallows his pride & hires Catherine to bring her brother home Catherine takes the job—but it won&t be easy Just getting to Zanzibar proves treacherous & once she arrives things only get worse If she is to save her brother Catherine Blackwood must face down danger at every turn & uncover a mystery four million years in the making

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