As the Astaroth and her crew recover from their harrowing ordeal with the Draxori, new threats loom on the horizon. With the true nature of the Great Galactic Union revealed the Hellworlders prepare to fight an unwinnable war. If they are to have any chance at victory, then they must stand united as one great Deathworld alliance. But the Terra-forming equipment vital to Earth’s recovery and Hellworlder control over the Martian parliament, has just gone missing.

Astarte and her crew must fly into the heart of the Union, the super-station Unity, to find answers and meet their enemies face to face. An honorable Admiral bound to a corrupt Union, the politician who mastermind Earth’s destruction, a misanthropic human security chief, and a powerful businessman who bears a strong resemblance to Astarte.

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To have any chance at finding their lost equipment and make it out alive the Hellworlders must unravel Unity’s dangerous secrets, and their only hope rests on the aid of one human women who has grown to hate her own species, and has become renowned for her brutal enforcement of the Union’s laws.

This is the start of book two, Sins of the Father, in my Hellworlder pirates series. From here on all subsequent chapters will be the sequal for To Hell and Back.