The Rainhell Voyages Hidden Stars: Shast Rainhell takes command, Book 1, (Paperback)

Shasti Rainhell has begun rebuilding her life at the commander of her former lover's privateer, the Sidhe.

The war with the Conchirri is over, but a new threat appears rom furth in toward the galactic core as an Evolver warship attacks a Confederate world. Confederate Spymaster Mandela returns to recruit Shasti to take his team of scientists and soldiers into unknown space where she will encounter old friends, and enemies.

A handsome linguist draws her interest, while her old adversary, Kyle Mmok, now completely in a robot body, mirrors some of her own struggles about what it means to be human. But a totally unexpected addition throws the expedition into chaos when Mikhail Vaugh, master assassin from Olympia, appears on the scene.