Blackest Ocean

Van is a veteran now, and the work keeps getting harder. So does he. A ghost ship docks in port with a cargo of crime victims, and Van and his crew are pulled into a hunt that runs past every star system the Peacemakers know.

The trail leads beyond Guild borders to the Torus, a lawless region with few ties to the civilized stars. It works as a gateway for crime and profit. Van and Torina find a thread there linking past, present and future in a web of violence.

Their answer is to fight fire with fire, and Van carries a torch he is willing to use. The search takes him from the far reaches of space, where a secretive race plies an illegal trade, to the halls of Anvil Dark.

The book is science fiction with a crime-hunt structure and a crew at its centre. Behind the chase sits a larger question for Van: what comes after the Peacemakers, and whether he can survive finding out.