Tyranny’s Prisoner

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Amanda Callin craves power and revenge. Revenge for the life she feels she is forced to live and power to exact that revenge. Now, all that is within her grasp, with the colonies' foremost computer developer, Alex Ballard, as her prisoner. Now Alex wages a desperate battle to keep Amanda out of his head and stay alive.

Meanwhile, Elise Danion finds herself in a three-way race to save her friend. Along with Russ Edwards, her co-pilot, and crew member Mike Archer, they jump from one star system to another following clues and tips, from and anonymous source. Elise discovers that her growing dread for Alex s life is justified when they run head long into an unforeseen threat to Alex s life. Now Elise must outwit not only the privateers' leader but an Authority officer so bent on destroying Callin s end, that he will forfeit Alex s life to prove himself. A hyper-drive malfunction forces the Capricorn off its course, stranding it in uncharted space. The crew of the Capricorn uncovers an unknown colony from Earth s past, and a plot that, if carried out, could place the future of the Colonies, and possibly Earth itself, in jeopardy. Alone, in Amanda Callin s realm, the Capricorn s crew must fight for their survival. Callin s scheme must be thwarted, but can Elsie, Russ and Alex stay alive long enough to stop her?