Champion Bold

Augustine de Zama joined the Zenith Expeditionary Fleet for the same reasons everyone else did: exploration, adventure, and the promise of wealth. If the admiral wanted to chase legends while they sought out trade partners for the Confederacy, that was his prerogative. No one had ever met the Bendradi before, and Augustine had no reason to believe they were any more real than a hundred other stories he’d heard over the years.Two years and hundreds of light years from the Confederacy, legend turned into reality. Augustine found the Bendradi overwhelming in their arrogance and underwhelming in their presence. But they were willing to trade, and they could make everyone rich.Once they were done with their war. Their genocidal, xenophobic war.With the fleet drawing closer and closer to a race that practices unimaginable horrors, Augustine is forced to take bold action to keep the fleet – and indeed humanity – from being painted with the stain of their sins.Instead of becoming rich, Augustine chooses to become a champion. Read more