Glow of a Burning Star — R.B. Banfield

The discovery of a ship dating back to the days before the Great Galactic War begins a journey of intrigue for space historian Tavars Reyn. He specialises in identifying old ships pulled in from space, and when the mysterious Thani enlist him to see something that they consider sacred, he makes a mistake that almost reignites the War. Realising that he needs to know more about the first colonised worlds, he sets out on an educational tour, and finds that he suddenly has some new friends who want to help him. A page-turning thriller set on and in the early days of galactic colonisation, when the race is on to get out into the universe by any means possible. The seventh of nine novels about the far-reaching influence of one family who were only ever looking out for themselves.