Take the Shilling

<p><strong>They gave him a soldier's skills.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>His war was still hell.</strong></p><p></p><p>Tomas Neumann wants off his backwater planet and away from his suffocating mother. Taking the shilling-joining the Confederated Worlds Ground Force-promises escape purpose and the father figure he's never had.</p><p></p><p>The Confederated Worlds uploads combat training directly into his brain-decades of tactical knowledge in mere hours. He's the perfect soldier before he fires his first shot.</p><p></p><p>But no implant can prepare him for the reality of killing. Especially when his enemies are human civilians who should welcome him as liberator not occupier. On the war-torn world of New Liberty Tomas discovers that downloaded skills mean nothing when every doorway could hide a sniper.</p><p></p><p>As his unit bleeds out in brutal counterinsurgency warfare Tomas faces a choice that will define him: break under the weight of what he's done or forge something stronger from the wreckage of his innocence.</p><p></p><p>Thousands of lives will soon hang on which choice he makes.</p><p></p><p><em>Fans of Marko Kloos's Frontlines and Joe Haldeman's The Forever War will find a gripping new series that asks what it costs to become a soldier-and what it takes to remain human.</em></p><p></p>