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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.

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TS Hottle is a science fiction writer originally from Cleveland. By night, he writes, cooks, golfs, plays video games with his future stepson, and fights with a cat named Tearyon. By day, he is a software developer. Sometimes, he wins against the cat, but not often. For fifteen years, he wrote crime fiction under the name Jim Winter. Now he has returned to his first love, science fiction He has created The Compact Universe, a series of loosely connected space opera tales centered around humans' disastrous first contact with a species known as the Gelt. He lives in the Cincinnati suburb of Deer Park with his fiancee Candy and her son. When not writing or cooking, they both can be found fixing up their newly purchased Cape Cod. Which has a deck. Which makes TS very happy.

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