Cinderspire Market Clash

Rejected by the Marines. Wanted by three civilizations. Funny how that works.When the Chancellor announces that three faction delegations have arrived to "observe" the year-end trials, the whole assembly hall goes silent. Jackson Bach already knows why. The delegations didn't come to watch a competition. They came for Squad Seven.The first human seen at Atlantis University in twelve thousand years, Jackson has gotten very good at one thing: keeping the squad of exiles and runaways who became his family alive. Good thing, too.Three of the oldest powers in known space just showed up smiling-and every one of them wants a piece of him. Kryos Forge wants a specimen. The Lucidium Dominion wants a corpse. The Vyr-Seren dynasty wants the runaway heir hiding behind his shoulder.None of them plan to leave witnesses.Can a foster kid from California and a squad of nobody's-property fugitives outwit three civilizations that have never lost-or has Jackson just gathered everyone he loves in one place for the kill?