Code of Conduct by Kristine Smith

Captain Jani Kilian’s life should have ended before a firing squad. Instead, she evaded battlefield justice by dying in a transport crash. End of story.

But doctors repaired her in secret, using the most advanced technologies. In the last days of the idomeni civil war, she escaped their homeworld of Shèrá, and spent the next 18 years on the run.

But Jani learns the hunt for her never ended. When Interior Minister Evan van Reuter, her former lover, tracks her down and begs her help in finding his wife’s killer, she has no choice but to agree. The search takes her to the Commonwealth capital of Chicago, a hotbed of political intrigue as dangerous as any warzone. As dangers mount, so do Jani’s struggles. Her rebuilt body is breaking down, and memories long suppressed are flooding back. Of one horrible night 18 years ago, and the gut-wrenching decision that changed her life forever.