Autographed First Edition New
Comfort Publishing
ISBN 9781936695881
Bedina’s War follows the interwoven lives of three generations during and after the War for Unification.
The Tinker’s Damn was a trading ship out of Orchidea, until the Commonwealth decided to secede from the Alliance, instigating Bedina’s War. Now she ferries fighters to the battle fronts and keeps reconnaissance information flowing for the rebels. Chief Engineer Julian comes across six Walking Dead stuffed into the trash bay of a confiscated salvage ship; he transports them to the Tinker’s Damn. The harmonics of the Tinker’s engines slow the degeneration of the Spa’Labs, so Julian develops individualized copies of the ship’s song which can be used to cure any Walking Dead. The secret is being able to dispense the cure before the Tinker’s Damn is eradicated. Confronting Alliance saboteurs, Spa’Lab hunters, renegade Mission priests, and their own prejudices, the crew risks everything to protect the Song of the Tinker’s Damn. Despite the fact that Lonicera is a Spa’Lab Walking Dead, Julian gambles everything to save her.
Thirty years after the end of Bedina’s War, Sally finally locates the place her husband died: Orchidea, a Commonwealth planet where eighteen out of twenty people are men and the ability to read and write is rare. Haskell is in the midst of helping Orchidea recover from the devastation of Bedina’s War. He is as fiercely protective of his planet as he is of his heart.
Sixty years later, Tupelo writes his memoirs while a new battle arises from the ashes of Bedina’s War.
First-Defender Hamm commands an outpost where soldiers are dying from a mysterious illness. Hamm fears that the affliction is linked to the Military-Medical Harvester Accord drawn up at the end of the war. This disease is sweeping through the military bases on all Alliance worlds, but leaving civilians unscathed.
As an Mission orphan, Hamm was not raised to be trusting. As a warrior, he was not trained to be trusting. But Hamm must trust Tupelo, the old man’s child-like slave who can single-handedly kill battle dogs, and the old man’s adopted daughter - a woman Hamm could grow to love. These three, linked to Hamm by past events during Bedina’s War, hold the key to the cure.
