Take the Shilling

<p><strong>The Confederated Worlds implanted in his brain the skills to make him a soldier. He had to learn for himself how to survive interstellar war.</strong></p><p>Tomas Neumann sought escape from his backwater planet and overbearing mother and a mentor to replace his long-dead father. Taking the shilling-enlisting in the Confederated Worlds military-promised both.</p><p>But despite the soldier's skills implanted in his brain combat still threatened to destroy him in body and in spirit. Grieving for lost comrades demoralized by a spiral of atrocities could Tomas learn what he needed to survive before facing his war's ultimate challenge?</p>