Starheart

Freighter captain Jess Sondijk thinks she has her life under control until Confederacy Admiral Hudson orders her ship boarded and has her hauled in for interrogation. The questions she's buried for years claw their way back. Was her husband's death really an accident?

Hudson is hunting bigger prey. Someone is trading with the alien Ptorix and offering a prize so great they're willing to part with their sacred starhearts, the jewels they call the windows of the soul.

When friends and family are abducted and bodies start to fall, Jess' personal search for the truth meshes with Hudson's determination to stop crimes so appalling he's prepared to risk his own career to end them.

Together they're dragged into a fight neither of them asked for, one that will force them to trust each other when walking away would be safer. How much are they willing to lose to make things right?