Fiction. Science Fiction. HTML:The second book in Tanya Huff's action-packed military sci-fi adventure Confederation series

Never tell a two-star general what you really think of him....
 
That was the mistake Staff Sergeant Torin Kerr made with General Morris. But as a battle-hardened professional, she took pride in doing her job and getting her troops back alive. So after she'd saved the mission to bring the Silviss into the Confederation�??instead of losing them and their world to the enemy known only as the Others�??she let the general know exactly how she felt.

And Torin�??s reward�??or punishment�??was to be separated from her platoon and sent off on what might well prove an even more perilous assignment. She was commandeered to protect a scientific expedition to a newly discovered and seemingly derelict spaceship of truly epic proportions. And Confederation politics had saddled her with a commanding officer who might prove more of a menace to the mission�??s success than anything they encountered.

Only time would tell if the ship was what it appeared to be, or a trap created by the Others�??or the work of an as-yet unknown alien race with an agenda that could prove all too hostile to