Resolute — Mike Shepherd

Kris Longknife, who turned her back on her privileged and moneyed upbringing for a career in the Navy, has at long last been given her first independent command -- in the very remote system of Chance. For an officer with a rep for bucking the system, it's an assignment that's as much exile as promotion.

But where Kris goes, trouble seems to follow -- and she isn't on the job long when she captures pirates sabotaging the buoys that mark the jump points of interstellar travel. The pirates, she soon learns, are hiding something -- the location of an uncharted and unpopulated planet of miraculous technology. Technology Kris must ensure never falls into the wrong hands...