March 2022

  Obscenity is the mother of invention as the challenges keep mounting up for mercenary explorer Lieutenant Ortiz. Collecting alien specimens for the Xenoplantation Programme is hard enough without a Droon scout carelessly destroying all her carefully-placed traps, and on top of that she has an unruly troop of mercenary hunters who keep getting in her head. Still, perhaps she can use one problem to solve another, in a novel and highly satisfying manner… Meanwhile, Amber Codrington arrives at the deep-space facility where she will commence her participation in the Programme. But even as her body is being prepared for...