Reach the Stars: A Kate Altaris Novel

"Am I truly a heroine, or am I just someone who once got outrageously lucky?" - Fleet Admiral Kathryn J. Altaris, Imperial NavyBy the year 8105, the Empire spans more than sixty galaxies. To its people it is a source of opportunity, wealth, and stability.To its enemies, it seems secure, powerful - invulnerable.The last thing anyone expected was war.Kate Altaris was nobody's idea of a hero. Born into poverty and neglect, a life of petty crime seemed inevitable - until fate intervened with a simple choice: the Imperial Navy, or prison.Six years later, serving on a starship's gun crew, one single - impossible - shot turns her overnight into the Empire's newest legend.The adulation comes quickly, but at a terrible price. Now a decorated officer aboard the fleet's flagship, Kate finds herself cut off from all she has ever known. Untrained in command and still grieving the woman she loved, she must learn to lead beneath the gaze of an Empire that cannot allow its heroine to fail.When a routine mission becomes a deadly trap behind enemy lines, Kate and her crew must fight with everything they have, simply to survive and return to the fleet.But the final battle will force her to choose what no commander should: victory bought with the blood of millions... ...or total and irrevocable defeat. Reach the Stars by C. S. Gaunt is the first volume of Kate's memoirs, the first novel of the Stars series.

Pagina's: 351, Paperback, Independently published