By Any Other Path

He stole a captain’s uniform. Now thirty-seven ships are counting on him to bring them home.

The Gap is forty-eight hours of dark space where no fleet can reach you and the hyperspace lanes tear apart. The alien Krug hunt there unseen, cloaked inside the currents of dark matter. Captain Elias Thorne of the elite Special Operations Service must lead Convoy CE-7 straight through it.

Except he isn’t Elias Thorne.

He is Ethan, a farm boy from Arcadia and a former petty officer who has worn another man’s jacket through two campaigns. With four escorts, forty missiles and a dwindling fuel supply, he must outthink a wolf pack he cannot see while every merchant crew in the convoy trusts the hero they believe is in command.

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