Impulse

Books

Space opera adventure meets military science fiction in this action-packed series debut for fans of Star Trek, Lois McMaster Bujold, and John Scalzi. Join Peter Cochrane, a lieutenant in the space Navy, on a star-spanning journey of discovery, diplomacy, and danger . . . Lieutenant Peter Cochrane of the Quantar Royal Navy believes he has his future clearly mapped out. It begins with his new assignment as an officer on Her Majesty's Spaceship Starbound, a Lightship bound for deep space voyages of exploration. But everything changes when Peter is summoned to the office of his father, Grand Admiral Nathan Cochrane, and given devastating news: the death of a loved one. In a distant solar system, a mysterious and unprovoked attack upon Lightship Impulse resulted in the deaths of Peter's former girlfriend and many of her shipmates. Now Peter's plans are torn asunder as he is transferred to a Unified Space Navy ship under foreign command, en route to an unexpected destination, and surrounded almost entirely by ...