Loyalty to the Max

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Max Dupont stars in his own standalone adventure in the second installment of the Broken Union series taking place one year after Ancient as the Stars.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Captain Maxime Dupont of the Earth Union is a rogue. A maverick. A clear-headed arbitrator of right and wrong- rules be damned.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But even Max stumbles when he encounters his latest challenge. The Union is collaborating with former enemy Mars to fix the collapse of interstellar travel-but at the cost of vulnerable citizens. Max has to figure out where his loyalties lie-and if treason is a price he's willing to pay for doing the right thing.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Meanwhile...</em></strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Lieutenant Ren Yilmaz has finally found a crew. A home. A rewarding career on the ESS Knight.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But Ren gets drawn into a web of espionage. Her captain Max has shady dealings with anti-Union rebel groups and assigns her shipmates off-the-books tasks. It's Ren's duty as an officer to investigate. But snooping can be disastrous. Not only would she be betraying her newfound family but Ren has secrets too-and if she digs too far her own past as a spy could get spectacularly exposed.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>As tensions mount the choices Max and Ren make will test their loyalty not only to the Union but to each other--and the crew they call family.</span></p>