WIP Introduction: THE DEVIL WEED
The Neda planetary system contains unfathomable amounts of valuable lanthanides--enough to make it the most populated of humanity’s budding network of interplanetary colonies. With the rule of law stretched thin and no clear leader to patch it, León joins the migrating masses with one goal in mind: to get away with murder.
And he does.
Bloody and disoriented on Neda’s arctic moon Ocyrrhoe, León is rescued by the merchant ship The Devil Weed. Welcomed by a secretive but joyful crew, León faces a rebirth he never expected, and with it a choice: become the person he should have been? Or become the person he's now free to be?
And then he doesn’t.
Within two fortnights, the bastard’s body is dug up by the authorities--along with three others in the same ditch. Framed for murders he didn’t commit and faced with the one he did, the web of secrets aboard The Devil Weed ensnares León and tangles him in a game of power, politics, and the largest cartel outside of the Milky Way.
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