Blachart — Christina Engela

Truthfully, d'Angelo found himself unsurprised that the engines had finally packed up. Weaver �" like his predecessors �" had been a kind of starship ‘backyard mechanic' and at the time of the explosion, the stardrive was all but held together by bits of wire and duct tape. Weaver's mistake cost him the stardrive �" and Fuller and Jang their lives. “Blown up” seemed a little inadequate to describe what really happened, but the engines were now spread over the last light-year or so behind him. Now that really made his calendar cycle. Life hardly ever turns out the way we expect it to, and for Mykl d'Angelo it had just taken a bad turn for terrible. Stranded in deep space, he is handed a chance to redeem the other shipwrecks in his life �" his lost career in the Imperial Starfleet and a lost chance at a relationship with the girl of his dreams. In order to pull this off, he must confront hordes of Corsairs, a crotchety starship captain, his former girlfriend and a particularly dangerous character called Blachart who will lead him behind enemy lines, where he will learn the meaning of trust �" but very likely, never return.