Caress's Blade

By Britton Hall

Isolation and harsh conditions force human drive and desire to white-hot intensity at a deep-space mining outpost called Onyx. Reneau and Kalera Giscard lead their crew's efforts there, while their daughter Sienna shines a refreshing light with her soaring spirit.Kerik Aton, Xanthe Palamaras, and Kori Aurix lend their skills to Onyx under the Giscards' leadership; even though each one carries a scar of heart and mind. Then a haunting message from far beyond Onyx comes as a siren call. A voyage to the message source takes the six companions to an alien outpost with a dark past. There is also a secret promise that is part wondrous technology and part weapon against an even more distant threat. The image of a young boy and his fallen lover before a massive, mysterious landscape are the only clues to the threat's disturbing nature.Chilling alien encounters, living statues, and a massive sky-antenna array force the six human visitors to walk a fine line between hiding in shadow and being set upon with slow-mounting fury. They will have to call on the dark places of their own hearts to be equal to alien challenges, or be prisoners to alien desires. Now the outpost's promised secret lies waiting to be unlocked, but opening its parts comes at such a high price....

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1521702802
• ISBN13: 9781521702802
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.0"