To Stand Defiant — Glynn Stewart

Trapped between warlordsThe choice is simple: Capitulation...or defiance!From the Solar System itself, Imperator James Calvin Walkingstick prepares the remaining fleets of the Commonwealth for a desperate and brutal campaign to retake their borders and unify humanity once more.On the other side of the Commonwealth's seceding star systems, Dictator Kaleb Periklos gathers his fleets to avenge their humiliation. To the mercenary Admirals of the Stellar League, it doesn't matter whether the worlds they conquer still kneel to Terra.Caught in-between these two would-be conquerors are Admiral James Tecumseh and the newborn Dakotan Confederacy. Now guardian to a nation, Tecumseh faces enemies on all sides. He's left with only one answer true to his and his new nation's principles.Fight.