Suicide Arc

While on retreat in a wilderness region of Amargosa, Ellie Nardino stumbles across a man wandering dazed and confused in the forest. Taking him to help, she soon learns he is Baker ibn-Aziz, the former president of the Compact brought down by a mysterious illness. Now Ellie, along with Tishla, will have to smuggle him back into the Compact to learn what really happened to him. Tishla, now a geneticist, takes charge of his case.However, when their pilot betrays them, they find themselves stranded on a frontier world with barely any law and a dark secret. Plus Baker has wandered off in the confusion.

While on a well-deserved leave in an orbital city, Connor Duffy meets a mysterious Gelt woman with a proposition. She has a device that can transport a ship instantly across light-years. All he has to do is free her from an indenture contract.But her employer does not want to let her or her prize go. And the aliens who invented the device want it back. Time is running out. Because while Duffy learns everything this device can do, the Compact of Humanity is tearing itself apart.