Houses of Common (five-chapter sample), Derick William Dalton [black books to read .TXT] 📗

Ranyk doesn't mind so much being attacked in space, but forty thousand colonists are waiting on him. Waiting for the haven of a newly terraformed planet. Ranyk is about to discover one starship of pirates is a mild beginning.

The first of a trilogy, Houses of Common contains the scientific rigor of Kathy Reichs and deep characters and moral dilemmas of Orson Scott Card.