Gate Ghosts · Book 11 of 14
Perilous Choices
Opportunity is presented to Admiral Cordelia. Imperium’s Presiding Executor Gaketork sends emissaries to establish communications with her, and she responds by installing a comm system aboard the executor’s transport.
Overview
Perilous Choices
Opportunity is presented to Admiral Cordelia. Imperium’s Presiding Executor Gaketork sends emissaries to establish communications with her, and she responds by installing a comm system aboard the executor’s transport. The Imperium governor, who has become sentient, uses the new comm system to send her critical data. Cordelia shares the governor’s information with newly-assembled Trident squadron commanders.
She directs the commanders to scour another executor’s territory and free suborned worlds of mercenary Radags and Krackus overseers. Imperium executors are incensed at the numerous returns of empty freighters and savaged peacekeepers from their territories. Many suspect a traitor is leaking sensitive information to the conclave, and they hunt for the culprit. Far away from the empire, Julien supports the uplift of relatively undeveloped races.
A Yeret inhabited world near the Queller anomaly requires additional water and slinging water ice asteroids at the planet for annuals will suffice. Supporting other races proves problematic. The Monkfreds, a symbiosis of two telepathic races, struggle to survive. On their home world hostile predators target the young. The plan to send the matriarchs, their calves, and their riders to other planets is failing.
During rescue of Monkfreds from an inhospitable environment, the conclave finds burning wreckage. The matriarchs used the heat to keep the calves, the riders, and themselves from freezing to death. The wreckage is identified as Utilimat. Now the question remains: Who destroyed the warships meant to protect the Monkfreds?
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Perilous Choices: questions readers ask
What is Perilous Choices about?
Opportunity is presented to Admiral Cordelia. Imperium’s Presiding Executor Gaketork sends emissaries to establish communications with her, and she responds by installing a comm system aboard the executor’s transport. The Imperium governor, who has become sentient, uses the new comm system to send her critical data.
Where does Perilous Choices fall in the Earthers' saga?
Perilous Choices is book 11 of 14 in the Gate Ghosts series, one of the four series that make up the Earthers’ saga. It follows Empire Turmoil and comes before Dubious Risks.
Do I need to read the earlier books before Perilous Choices?
It reads best in order. Perilous Choices is book 11 of the Gate Ghosts series and carries forward characters and events from the earlier books. The reading order page lays out the full saga.
Is Perilous Choices available as an audiobook?
Yes. Perilous Choices is available as an audiobook on Audible.
Can I read a sample of Perilous Choices before buying?
Yes. A free excerpt is available as a PDF: download the excerpt. No email or sign-up required.
Is there a glossary for Perilous Choices?
Yes. The saga has a large cast, several races and a lot of ship names, so each book has its own glossary of characters, places, ships and terms: download the glossary.
What formats does Perilous Choices come in?
Perilous Choices is published in e-book and audiobook. Print and e-book editions are sold through Amazon. The audiobook is on Audible.
Who wrote Perilous Choices?
S. H. Jucha (Scott Jucha), author of the Earthers’ saga: forty-four science fiction novels across The Silver Ships, Pyreans, Gate Ghosts and Cercians, published by Hannon Books, Inc. More about Scott.