Jason Andrew Bond

"An advanced extraterrestrial race must, as humans have, evolve into a peaceful society."-From Senate Majority Leader Sebastian Flynn's commencement speech at MIT"Fifty years later we're still debating this? An obsolete military desperate to justify itself fabricated that war."-President John Moore two weeks before the destruction of Europa Base"Those veterans suffer only from memory implants. They're a senseless burden."-Excerpt from Vice President Samantha Creswell's California campaign debate"Please forgive us for what we've allowed to happen."-Note found in the rubble of the Oval Office"We won't make the same mistake they did... They left some of us alive."-Fleet Admiral Jeffrey Holt

When Erica Morgan tries to have her husband killed, she discovers the underworld won't touch him. Fronting as a yacht salesman, he secretly moves cocaine and gold for a dangerous cartel and has a savage reputation far beyond the abuse he's shown his wife. When she commits to kill him herself, she has no way to know how much the murder will cost her. Arising out of death, a covetous evil demands dread sacrifices. While it kills indiscriminately, if she can harness its voracious appetite, she will become more powerful than the cartel bosses who want her dead.