Crisis at Validor

<p>Newly-promoted Captain Brett Butcher is about to achieve his life-long ambition to command a battle cruiser. But before he takes up his new posting he goes home on leave hoping to perhaps catch a glimpse of his first love the unattainable Lady Tarlyn.</p><p>When the queen is assassinated in a terrorist attack Tarlyn's life is thrown into turmoil when she too becomes a target. The last person she expects to rescue her is her childhood sweetheart Brett Butcher.</p><p> </p><p>As Validor's Ptorix and human populations face off over a group of islands neither owns the calls for war grow louder. Torn between love duty and ambition Butcher and Tarlyn struggle to prevent an inter-species conflict while the ember of love that has smouldered for so long bursts into flame. But with planetary peace at stake both will be forced to choose; love or duty.</p>