Undercover Alliance

When Inarrii Sergeant Sarina Tariim accepts a position off-ship to guard the human lawyer John Bennings she knows in her heart it is a pity post. A paper pusher doesn’t need a private body guard with her experience. No one had even heard of the man before the Treaty negotiations began, and they weren’t likely to remember him after it was signed. She’d only been given the post because she was too damaged to serve on the Inarrii flagship, too wounded in the last terrorist attack to be considered the dangerous warrior she’d once been.

In the middle of treaty negotiations between the Inarrii and humans, things have come to a precarious standstill. Attacks on the Inarri ships and Mars base have been identified as being human in origin, although there is no question that the radical humans opposing the Treaty have been aided by members of the deadly alien pirates known as the Raveners. Humans alone don’t have the technology to create the havoc achieved in the attacks to date, and testimony from witnesses has proven that the anti-alien group has in fact been unknowingly in collusion with the pirates.

Posing as technical lawyer and negotiator, John Bennings, Earth Starforce agent John Norton is assigned to the Treaty negotiations. Intelligence points to a more covert strike on the legal force handling the Treaty than the recent aggressive but ineffective spaceship attacks. His job is to ferret out the plot and foil it. Being assigned a bodyguard isn’t surprising, considering the rash of recent incidents, but an Inarrii goddess is more than he’d bargained for.