Terms of Violence: Justice Has a Mean Streak... Her Name is Beth

Three Cardinal rules.Do the job. Get paid. Don't get attached.Mercenary Elisabeth "Beth" Cardinal has survived by following them without exception. She's escorted smugglers through war zones, hunted killers across the stars, and walked away from contracts that left burning stations behind her.Then she accepts one routine protection job.Within hours, people are dead.Professional assassins strike from nowhere. Military forces erase entire sectors to bury the truth. Suddenly Beth and her crew aren't protecting a client anymore...They're running from a conspiracy powerful enough to rewrite the future of the galaxy.With her towering combat mech Wrecks beside her, a wisecracking pilot covering her back, and her ship Daring carrying them deeper into enemy territory, Beth uncovers a secret someone will destroy worlds to protect.Because Beth isn't entirely human.And the people hunting her know exactly what she was created to become.Now she faces one impossible choice: Keep running...Or become the weapon they were terrified to unleash.Terms of Violence is a fast-paced science fiction thriller packed with explosive action, deadly conspiracies, rogue technology, unforgettable characters, and a battle-hardened heroine who refuses to let anyone decide her fate.