Close Proximity

✍ Scribed by Pike, Chris J.; Cooper, M. D.

• Publisher: The Wooden Pen Press
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 177 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781546954040

✦ Synopsis

As the Orion War begins to spread across the stars...
When Tanis Richards sold her nanotech in the Silstrand Alliance, no one could have imagined the chain of events she would set in motion.

Kylie Rhoads is a junker. She makes her living traveling the stars, salvaging abandoned ships left over from pirate attacks on the edge of the Gedri system. Some of the hulls are legal for the taking, most aren't.

When a salvage job goes bad, Kylie finds herself on the opposite end of a gun. The hand holding that gun? The SA Space Force, just the people Kylie wants to avoid. To avoid prison, Kylie makes a deal to go deep into the Gedri System and rescue a simple girl but out in the fringe, nothing is as it seems.

With her ex acting as the military liaison, Kylie takes her crew on the most dangerous mission of their lives. Rescue the girl, defeat the crime syndicate, and pray the military holds up their end of the bargain.

An Aeon 14 series
The events of the Perilous Alliance series occur during the New Canaan time span in The Orion War series. This series may be read at any time after reading Destiny Lost, New Canaan, or Orion Rising

About M. D. Cooper & Aeon 14
M. D. Cooper is a New York Times bestselling author who has envisioned a rich future for humanity,one where planet-sized megastructures house trillions of humans, but traveling between thestars still takes decades, or even centuries.

Fans of Alastair Reynolds , Honor Harrington , The Expanse , or Elizabeth Moon's Vatta's War will feel right at home in this, the first book of the Perilous Alliance series.

What is Aeon 14?
The universe of Aeon 14 is based on the premise that advanced, intelligent, starfaring life takes 14 billion years toevolve. In astronomy an aeon is a billion years. In Aeon 14, humanity is at the leading edge of this evolution inthe Milky Way Galaxy.

Humanity and the AIs they have created spread out amongst the stars and find that they are alone, though it maynot always be that way...

Recommended Reading Order:

1. Outsystem
2. A Path in the Darkness
3. - Destiny Rising can also be read in place of Outsystem & A Path in the Darkness
4. Building Victoria
5. Destiny Lost (also works as a starting point)
6. Set the Galaxy on Fire
7. New Canaan
8. Orion Rising
9. Rika Mechanized (can be read at any point after Destiny Lost)
10. Close Proximity (Forthcoming - can be read at any point after Destiny Lost)
11. Rika Outcast (Forthcoming - can be read at any point after Destiny Lost)

Notes:
- The forthcoming Delta-Team stories can be read at any point after Destiny Lost, but may contain small spoilers.
- The forthcoming 242nd Marine stories can be read at any point after Outsystem.

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From the Author

Since the very beginning of my journey with the Aeon 14 novels, Chris has been my earliest beta reader who sees the books before editors or anyone else.

Chris has been instrumental in shaping the world and characters of Aeon 14, and now has finally stepped in to write his own tale here in the 'verse.

We chatted for some time about which time period would be right for Chris, and we settled on the years after Destiny Lost and the Battle of Bollam's World.

Both of us really like the area of space around the Silstrand Alliance, and we wondered what would have happened to the nanotech that Tanis sold S&H Defensive Armaments, and how were things faring in the pirate-ridden, coreward edge of the Silstrand Alliance.

Well, now you're about to find out in this exciting new adventure that follows Kylie Rhoads and the crew of the Dauntless in this, part of the expanding scope of the Orion War.

Sincerely, M. D. Cooper

From the Inside Flap

Reading Order
The Aeon 14 universe is vast and growing quickly. To help you know where to go next, pick up the handy dandy FREE READING GUIDE : amazon.com/dp/B073MY9Z87

The Books of Aeon 14 * The Intrepid Saga * Book 1: Outsystem * Book 2: A Path in the Darkness * Book 3: Building Victoria * Book 1 & 2 Extended Edition: Desitiny Rising

• The Orion War

  • Book 1: Destiny Lost
  • Tales of the Orion War: Set the Galaxy on Fire (short story anthology)
  • Book 2: New Canaan
  • Book 3: Orion Rising
  • Visit aeon14.com/orionwar to learn what's coming next.

• Perilous Alliance (Age of the Orion War)

  • Book 1: Close Proximity
  • Book 2: Strike Vector (coming August, 2017)
  • Book 3: Collision Course (coming October, 2017)

• Sentience Wars: Origins (The Sentience Wars)

  • Book 1: Lyssa's Dream (coming July 2017)
  • Book 2: Lyssa's Run (coming October, 2017)

• Rika's Marauders (Age of the Orion War)

  • Prequel: Rika Mechanized
  • Book 1: Rika Outcast (coming August 2017)

• Perseus Gate (Age of the Orion War)

  • Episode 1: The Gate at the Grey Wolf Star
  • Episode 2: The Sorld at the Edge of Space (coming July 2017)
  • Episode 3: The Dance on the Moons of Serenity

• The Warlord (Age of the Orion War)

  • Book 1: The Woman Without a Country (coming September 2017)

• The Sol Dissolution

  • The 242 - Venusian Uprising (In The Expanding Universe 2 anthology)
  • The 242 - Assault on Tarja (In The Expanding Universe 3 anthology - comming December 2017)

• The Delta Team Chronicles (Age of the Orion War)

  • A "Simple" Kidnapping (Pew! Pew! anthology Volume #1)
  • The Disney World (Pew! Pew! anthology Volume #2 - September 2017)

The Plundered Chronicles * The Girl Who Touched the Stars