The Tranquility Wars
<b>A young student, a dangerous love affair, and an explosive conflict to establish control over humanity...<br></b><br>For young Hunter Blake, the future is bright.<br><br>He has been awarded the exclusive Covington Fellowship, which brings fame, a generous stipend, and two years of privileged study on Mars. He has also been reunited with his lifelong love, Tehani Wilawa. <br><br>But as tensions mount between rival government factions, bands of renegade space pirates begin raiding, looting, kidnapping, and building their ranks from the disaffected of both space powers.<br><br>When Hunter and Tehani are kidnapped by a pirate band, they find themselves questioning “truths†they’ve accepted all their lives. Are the space pirates really the avatars of a new freedom — or simply criminals? <br><br>To answer, they must learn the razor-thin difference between freedom and anarchy, obedience and slavery, pleasure and indulgence. And for Hunter Blake, his greatest crisis is no longer a matter of success or failure, but of life or death.