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Synopsis
DEBUT SOLO NOVEL FROM THE CO-AUTHOR OFDEAD SIX. Air Force weapons expert Mike Kupari, co-author ofDead Six, Swords of Exodus, andAlliance of Shadowsoffers up science fiction action andadventure on a grand scale. When privateer Captain Catherine Blackwood is enlisted to rescue her brother from a treacherous warlord, she finds herself on her most dangerous mission yet.
It's been years sinceCatherine Blackwood left the stodgy, repressive colony world of Avalon. Now the captain of the privateer vesselAndromeda, she is the master of her own destiny. But Catherine soon finds herself back onAvalonafter receiving a plea for help froma most unlikely source: her estranged father, esteemed Avalon Council member Augustus Blackwood.
It seems Catherine's brother, theheir to the Blackwood fortune, has gone off in search of treasure on the failed, chaotic world of Zanzibar. ButCecil Blackwood'splans have gone very, very wrong, and he has been taken hostage and held for ransom by a fearsome local warlord. Augustus, knowing his daughter is the only one who can be trusted to return his son safely, swallows his pride and hiresCatherine to bring her brother home.
Catherine takes the job but it won't be easy. Just getting to Zanzibar proves treacherous. And once she arrives, things only get worse. If she is tosave her brother, Catherine Blackwood must face down danger at every turn and uncover a mystery four million years in the making.
AboutHer Brother's Keeper
"After cowritingDead SixandSwords of Exoduswith Larry Correia, Kupari makes his solo debut with this space opera that is bound to attract fans of Mike Shepherd s Kris Longknifeseries or Elizabeth Moon s Vatta s Warbooks. An excellent choice for both teen and adult sf readers." Library Journal
" P]age-turning action . . . may be Kuperi's best book yet." Galveston County Daily News
A big, sweeping space adventure, with heroic characters you care about. Mike Kupari is an awesome storyteller. Larry Correia"