The Firing Line

Anna Lenai and Melissa Carlson are on their way to Salus Prime: a low-tech planet in the grip of the Ragnos Confederacy.Together, they must build a resistance movement to overthrow Ragnosian rule and prevent their enemies from gaining a stronghold from which to attack Leyria. Things get complicated when Melissa is forced to carry on alone. Despite her inexperience, she is determined to lead the Resistance to victory against a powerful enemy.Meanwhile, Jack Hunter must assemble his own band of rebels on Leyria, when the tyrannical government of Jeral Dusep begins targeting his friends and family. Back on Earth, Claire Carlson hopes to escape the turmoil she has seen over the last few years. But the sinister Overseers are watching her.The galaxy-spanning war heats up in The Firing Line, the twelfth book in R.S. Penney's Justice Keepers Saga. Rich Penney grew up in Southern Ontario, in the city of Stoney Creek. Though he didn't know it at the time, he was a writer at the tender age of seven, acting out elaborate stories with his action figures. He discovered a love of science-fiction and fantasy with J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, and Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time. Within six months of reading those series, he knew what he wanted to do with his life.Rich is an activist and a futurist, an advocate of global sustainability and a proponent of social justice. He has given talks in Toronto, Athens and Brisbane, covering a wide variety of topics from environmental sustainability to social equality. A science fiction series by R.S. Penney.