Heritage Lost: 1

At thirty-four Captain Katya Cassius knew she faced the twilight of her military career as a Magistrate officer on board The Maelstrom. She just hadnt imagined shed be jettisoning it into space. But no good deed ever goes unpunished . . .One simple rescue mission lands Katya and her two-person crew in the midst of a cover-up with the discovery of the Magistrate warship Aletheias slaughtered crew. Among the dead they discover one survivor an Oneiroi toddler. Despite the species reputation as the Magistrates mind-destroying enforcers Katya rescues him. This act of mercy only ends with her own comrades in arms turning their weapons on her ship.Caught between former comrades in arms and a terrorist organization the lurking danger buried in the boys genetic code might prove deadlier than both combined. An adopted child herself Katya refuses to abandon or airlock the toddler even as he reshapes her mind and uncovers her forgotten childhood.