Kaine's Rebellion

Hayden Kaine crash-lands on Oberon. The Scimitar is presumed destroyed. Cora is dying.Shot down in an escape pod onto a desert world, fugitive officer Kaine wakes believing his ship — and everyone aboard — is lost. Cora's avatar is destroyed; her mind survives in a crystal matrix, failing. Her only chance is to return to the Scimitar."e;She is dying. Her only chance is to return to Scimitar."e;But Oberon is at war: open rebellion against a ruthless governor, while a renewed Confederation fleet moves in to own the winner. To save Cora, Kaine must cross rebel territory with the help of a young engineer who refuses to give up on either of them — and confront what the Confederation his family served for generations did to worlds like Oberon.Then the rebellion's hardliners rig a two-megaton bomb on the government's orbital station. Let it detonate: thousands of civilians dead, and a tyrant's retaliation guaranteed. Stop it: the station — and the Scimitar's alien technology — stays in a tyrant's hands."e;I have amends to make for a lot of generations of Kaines."e;What you will find inside:Fast-paced military science fiction, no fillerA commander protecting a wounded human-AI hybridA planet divided by rebellion and reconquestA high-risk raid to steal back a ship that can reach orbitA detonation dilemma with no moral high groundEvery book resolves — no cliffhangersFor readers of The Expanse who like competent people inside broken systems where choices stick.Kaine's Rebellion is Book 4 of Shattered Empire.