Kaine's Crucible

A military cadet. A frontier uprising. A truth that may never be provable.Hayden Kaine is a rising star at the Confederation Military Academy—groomed for command, protected by legacy, and certain of the empire he serves.Assigned to observe a routine peacekeeping mission on the frontier world of Nova Esperança, Kaine expects discipline, order, and a clean report. Instead, he is captured by colonial...