The Last Stryker by Alex Sheppard

Sixteen and sole heir to the richest House in the galaxy, Ramya Kiroff has a life anyone would kill for. Only to Ramya, it is a living nightmare. When Ramya is handed a diktat–she must marry a stranger who will run the Kiroff business empire in her stead–she decides she has had enough. Ramya’s plan to escape her trappings is flawless. Until she steps into the Endeavor–the one ship Trysten Kiroff is desperate to get his hands on . . . Former Captain of the Confederate Fleet, Terenze Milos is a hero, said to have brought the galaxy back from the brink of extinction. When Captain Milos recognizes the unmistakable signs of deadly Locustan technology in a salvaged fighter craft–the Stryker–he sounds a warning. But the Confederacy isn’t listening . . .On the run from a corrupt Confederacy, the Endeavor and its crew may be the galaxy’s last line of defense against an unstoppable foe.

Category: Science Fiction – Space Opera

Ramya Kiroff has run away from her father’s shadow, right into the middle of a galactic war with the deadly Locustans. It’s a war with monumental stakes–a loss would mean the end of life in the galaxy. It’s a war that the Confederacy does not believe has begun.

Guided by veteran Captain Milos, Ramya races across the galaxy to rally a ragtag band of troops to defend the front lines. They just might pull off a miracle, but first they have to outrun the Confederate forces and Trysten Kiroff’s ruthless bounty hunters.

A grizzled old captain with a mysterious past, a misfit crew, and a runaway heiress with a secret–can this band of misfits save the galaxy from annihilation?