The Sundering
Dread Empire's Fall
Chapter One
The defeated squadron was locked in its deceleration burn, the blazing fury of its torches directed toward the capital at Zanshaa. Bombardment of Delhi groaned and shuddered under the strain of over three gravities. At times the shaking and shivering was so violent that the woman called Caroline Sula wondered if the damaged cruiser would hold together.
After so many brutal days of deceleration, she didn't
much care if it did or not.
Sula was no stranger to the hardships of pulling hard gee.
She had been aboard the Dauntless under Captain Lord
Richard Li when, a little over two months ago, it had joined
the Home Fleet on a furious series of accelerations that
eventually flung it through a course of wormhole gates toward
the enemy lying in wait at Magaria.
The enemy had been ready for them, and Sula was now
the sole survivor of the crew of the Dauntless. Delhi, the
heavy cruiser that had pulled Sula's pinnace out of the
wreckage of defeat, had been so badly damaged that it was a
minor miracle it surviv ... read full excerpt from The Sundering ebook
