Written by Joel Shepherd
Read by Dina Pearlman
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 32 Kbps
Unabridged

In 23 Years on Fire, Cassandra discovered that the technology that created her has been

misused in her former home and now threatens all humanity with catastrophe. Returning

home to Callay, she finds that Federation member worlds, exhausted by the previous

thirty-year-war against the League, are unwilling to risk the confrontation that a

solution may require. Some of these forces will go to any lengths to avoid a new

conflict, including taking a sledgehammer to the Federation Constitution and threatening

the removal by force of Cassandra's own branch of the Federal Security Agency.

More frighteningly for Sandy, she has brought back to Callay three young children, whom

she met on the mean streets of Droze, discovering maternal feelings she had not known

she possessed. Can she reconcile her duty as a soldier, including what she must do as a

tactician, with the dangers that those decisions will place upon her family--the one

thing that has come to mean more to her than any cause she now believes in?