[The Confederation 02] • Barretts Privateers

The Grugell War is over. The Galaxy is at peace, with uneasy diplomatic relations established between the Confederacy and the Grugell Empire.

Follow along for two post-war adventures of The Crider Chronicles’ Captain Jean Barrett as she and the crew of the armed privateer starship Shade Tree struggle to make a living in the post-war Confederacy by accepting whatever jobs come their way. Sometimes they’re legal -- and sometimes not.

The first volume includes two stories:

Plague Ship

Captain Barrett, master of the privateer ship Shade Tree, is finding peace as full of challenge as war. Forced to operate at times on the shadowy side of the law, she has accepted a commission to steal the cargo of a smuggler that is illegally transferring minerals to an agent of the Grugell Empire.

Boarding the smuggler’s ship has revealed something Barrett was not expecting. A deadly virus threatens her crew, and Barrett must find a cure, save her ship and crew, turn the tables on her would-be murderer – and make a profit in the process.

Unrepentant Sinner

Colonel Augustus G. Feller, Confederate Marines (retired) is cruelly bored by the routine of retirement. A life of combat, adventure, and excitement has left him ill-prepared for life in his quiet Mountain View condominium.

A night on the town leads Colonel Feller to the Shade Tree’s Security Chief. An hour’s conversation is all the incentive the Colonel needs to sign on, as the Shade Tree races to an unaffiliated new colony to save two crew members from a slaver ring - and the Colonel tries to find an end more befitting his life than the cancer that’s slowly killing him.