Settler Chronicles

Someone needs to be alive to call for help. A dishonourable discharge left Margo unable to find honest work on Earth. Signing onto a colonizing mission heading to a new world promised a fresh start. Or at least that's what she'd thought. Strapped into a crashing colony ship, she realized how wrong she'd been. They hit the ground and the straight forward colonizing mission becomes a scramble for survival. Accidents keep happening-too many to blame on random bad luck. A trail of evidence leads Margo to a startling conclusion-one of her fellow colonists is a saboteur. Tomorrow is the colony's first communications window with Earth and their only chance to send a message home. Will Margo stop the saboteur before it's too late?

Margo Murphy is running out of time in a borrowed body. Last night, Margo and her fellow colonists survived The Conglomerate's efforts to destroy them. Now all she wants is to build a peaceful life away from the corporate monopoly dominating Earth. But a virus has infected the colony's AI, threatening their life support. The virus is only a symptom of a deeper evil, the culmination of a cold war conducted in secrecy for almost two centuries reaches its zenith in an enigmatic boy, abandoned to die on their world. To purge the virus, save the boy and protect the colony, Margo needs information from The Conglomerate's headquarters orbiting Earth, but she's in another solar system without a spaceship. Her only option is an experimental technology to project her mind across the galaxy. Will Margo gain access The Conglomerate's secrets to save her world, or will her mind be lost forever in the cold void of space?

Against the odds, the Thesan colony-Margo's new home-is starting to thrive. However the group wasn't the first colony ship sent through the wormhole to settle a new solar system. Two other ships came before, and repeated efforts to communicate with them only return silence. Margo wants to remain a recluse hiding in her greenhouse away from the other colonists, especially her husband Gary. She wants to keep the side-effects of her last battle with the megalomaniac leader of The Conglomerate to herself. She certainly doesn't want to go traipsing across the solar system in search of the missing colonists. But nothing ever goes how she wants it to-especially now that they have a space-worthy, if antiquated, ship to investigate what happened to those other colonies. Reluctantly, she joins an awkward coalition of colonists and former insurgents on a mission to solve the mystery of what happened to the colonies that came before. In the end, what Margo finds changes everything.