[Duty, Honor, Planet 02] • Honor Bound

Former Marine Jason McKay thinks his first assignment as a Military

Intelligence officer---as the head of a protection detail for a Republic

Senator's daughter on her humanitarian mission to the star colonies---will be

a boring waste of time. Until Aphrodite, the agricultural colony they're

touring, is invaded by an inhuman enemy that may threaten Earth, and McKay and

his people are trapped far behind enemy lines.

Separated from his team during the attack, McKay has to try to keep Valerie

O'Keefe, the idealistic daughter of a powerful politician, alive in the face

of threats from an alien menace and a more mundane revolutionary front that is

working to free the forced exiles from their servitude to the MultiCorps that

run the colonies.

Meanwhile, McKay's second in command, Shannon Stark, leads the remainder of

the special operations unit in an effort to sabotage the invaders in their

effort to loot the resources of Aphrodite and to learn more about their true

identity.

Together, these two officers fight to survive, to protect the civilians in

their charge... and to do their duty.