The Hegemony is falling, but a new terror is rising in the shadows.

Sarah Harkness is a woman of many faces—and even more secrets. While her official role is as a project administrator for the Reconstruction, Investment & Development Agency (RIDA), her “extracurricular” activities involve hunting the thirteen warlords who turned Alliance planets into their private despotic playgrounds. She is the shadow that provides the justice the government is too slow to deliver.

But Sarah isn’t as invisible as she thinks.

Special Agent Hugh Ryan has been watching. He doesn’t want to arrest her; he wants to recruit her. The Alliance is flying blind in the Hegemony, and Sarah’s connection to the powerful Shimano Brotherhood is the only key to an intelligence network that can prevent total galactic collapse.

Now, Sarah and Hugh must go undercover as a wealthy couple in the heart of the United Worlds. Their mission: infiltrate the capital of Perseus, outmaneuver the brilliant but dangerous spymaster Damian Simon, and stop the psychopathic Francisco Marquardt before his reign of terror turns entire systems into graveyards.

If you enjoy classic space opera with tactical ship combat, compelling characters, and intricate world-building, you’ll be captivated by book four of Lieutenant Commander Pike, Pike’s Passage.