Vortex (The Brightest Void #1)
When Coralie Frazer arrives at Nimbus Station aboard the National Space Research Council starship Triumph, it’s not as the engineer she expected to be. Light-years and several wormhole jumps from Earth, she’s now the prisoner of her former crew, and they want nothing from her but the blood that keeps them alive. When she’s granted a sliver of unexpected freedom, she jumps at the chance to escape—but fleeing seems impossible when Earth might as well be in another universe.
Commander Josiah O’Donnell has his own problems, and taking reluctant command of the newest United States Orbital Guard cutter Bayonet is the least of them. Fresh off medical leave and tasked with locating Triumph and rescuing her crew, he knows the wormholes he’s meant to traverse are hazardous—but what’s on the other side might be more perilous than he ever imagined.
Desperate to save her fellow captive blood sources, Coralie doesn’t intend to fail. Haunted by the memories of his disastrous last assignment, Josiah won’t allow more death. There’s just one problem: success for either means condemning a thousand others.
Resonance (The Brightest Void #2)
When Commander Josiah O’Donnell returns to Mars after rescuing the hostages aboard Nimbus Station, he expects to be relieved of command. Instead, he’s sent back into the dark as an escort for a US Navy destroyer with borderline unethical orders. After a wormhole transit turns lethal for some of the destroyer’s crew, Bayonet is once again thrust into a deadly situation no one expected . . . or did they?
Reassigned to the surface after her reconciliation with Josiah, Lieutenant Commander Hope O’Donnell is more than happy to remain on Mars and investigate—very, very unofficially—who was responsible for setting up the cutter’s crew as blood sources for the scientists at Nimbus Station. But someone doesn’t want her discovering the truth, and that someone is willing to kill in order to shield a conspiracy that extends well beyond the Orbital Guard.
Caught in a future that was set in motion before Bayonet first slipped into space, both will do whatever it takes to stop further violence—but between a twisted web of political intrigue and the void’s own secrets, bloodshed might be inevitable.
Coming 2025