Oshun is bribed to fight a war on a red-sun world. During VR war gaming in cryosleep, she is best. But she isn't prepared for the catastrophe on that spaceship.
Frankie doesn't know what a decent meal is until a terrorist takes him from the slums. The man treats him like a son, but Frankie knows he's done bad things. He sees the victims of war. With a hover and a gun, Frankie must betray his guardian and save them.
Rayner's hometown is Oxford, in the UK. But Rayner is very multicultural as she lived and worked in East Asia for five years and taught English as a foreign language before that. Rayner has always loved science and studied Environmental Biology at university, then later Linguistics, after teaching language for so long. But after having kids, Rayner just wanted to pursue her deepest passion--creative writing-- and follow her dreams in becoming an author.