Valor's Trial

Bestselling author Tanya Huffs Confederation series of military science fiction returns with a novel where one womans discovery shakes the foundations of the intergalactic alliance itself...

Gunnery Sergeant Torin Kerr has had enough of special treatment—and of gaping, skepticism, and whispers of Silsviss or Big Yellow as she passes. Shes glad to be back with her own Shquo Company, surrounded by familiar faces and enduring more razzing than awe. Of course, the company is going into battle again, facing death on all sides in a centuries-old war where every attempt at diplomacy fails, and shes got a brand-new second lieutenant to train. Another glorious day in the Confederation Marine Corps.

The battle goes disastrously wrong. And yet somehow Torin wakes up. The Others dont take prisoners—or so the Confederation has always said. But the dark tunnels and mysterious mechanisms of the warren around her certainly seem like a prison. And theres more going on than simple confinement. One after another, Torins most cherished beliefs are shaken to the core. Shes always been a survivor. But time is running out. If she has to question everything to escape, answers had better start coming fast...