Octavia Bellicose — Michael Mounts

Never get off the boat, and never split your team. Octavia Pomona breaks every cardinal rule when she is given double objectives, and naturally the team thrusts themselves into peril with eyes wide shut. Blazing forward heedless of any danger, they confront death itself without fear, even acting on the slightest impulse of rage. Assassination and piracy are the order of the day, and the new rules it seems everyone must learn to live by. Leave and liberty are canceled for everyone as the wolves step out of the darkness, brazenly entering the light. The predators are ravenous this go around, relishing the taste of blood, and lusting after the flesh. Day or night, everyone is looking to settle the score, and take their pound of flesh. No one will be visiting the opera house while the range war is in full flame, and guns are blazing. Lives are taken, people are left for dead, and bodies are deserted where they fall on the prairie. Keep your head down, and you might come out the other end alive. Spy rings, the super-rich, depraved deviancy, and over-clocked killing-machines all run rampant in the Fifth Novel of the Mercenary Octavia Pomona.