Valkyrie — Chelsea Gaither

With a return to Holton Fleet, converted Overseer Bryan Landry faces an ignoble death at the hands of his old allies. Be it a bullet from of a PCR 3 rifle or explosive decompression out the nearest airlock, the result would be the same. Overseers might start out as humans, but as far as Holton Fleet is concerned, the best way for them to end is dead.

But Holton Fleet is the only way to save Adrienne Parker. The Overseers dosed her with an infective agent and left her to die. Bryan may not remember much of his human life, but trading Adry's life for his own seems like a fair trade.

Then a stray laser cripples the Fleet's mothership on the edge of an Overseer battleground. The lives of several thousand human beings are now in alien hands.

Lucky for them, those hands are Bryan Landry's. Too bad he doesn't share their confidence...