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The Cold Between
Elizabeth Bonesteel
Debut novel of adventure, romance and interplanetary intrigue from a new voice in science fiction.When her crewmate, Danny, is murdered on the colony of Volhynia, Central Corps engineer Commander Elena Shaw is shocked to learn the main suspect is her lover, Treiko Zajec. She knows Trey is innocent – he was with her when Danny was killed. So who is the real killer and why are the cops framing an innocent man?Retracing Danny’s last hours, she discovers that his death may be tied to a tragedy from the past. For twenty-five years, Central Gov has been lying about the mystery, even willing to go to war to protect their secrets. Secrets that hide a conspiracy so deep within Central Gov that it threatens all of human civilization throughout the inhabited reaches of the galaxy – and beyond.
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Source ISBN: 9780008137809
Ebook Edition © March 2016 ISBN: 9780008137816
Version: 2016-02-17
Dedication (#ulink_394ed3e5-af00-5501-ab02-43112aa63148)
For Debbie
Contents
Cover (#uaf35667e-d2da-5f36-9d52-0e7ddb73657f)
Title Page (#ub1680bf6-16e3-50f5-9877-20c38076dcf1)
Copyright (#u75f52ddc-1b19-501a-bcf6-9eedde80e6de)
Dedication (#ud6895942-19d5-547a-8f1e-4068ef342200)
Prologue (#ue48e2396-bb07-5ff0-ac62-d76838033b3b)
Part I (#u40e95957-8f0b-52f1-9509-6700660764c0)
Chapter 1 (#u25cfb8b7-40a0-564d-abbe-a9d36cd887dc)
Chapter 2 (#ue03db10e-fed4-5e19-8196-55f7d7783b40)
Chapter 3 (#u03d2e8cd-db9e-5077-8c25-41c92098c36e)
Chapter 4 (#ua33ae6ba-757f-5e06-be6f-5b4f7a83f3a3)
Chapter 5 (#ue60eaa9d-ca2c-59a5-8426-4e48c401a424)
Chapter 6 (#uef8a141d-a234-571d-ad49-b3a8571728e7)
Chapter 7 (#uf049313f-be81-5282-a2dd-99d07379f740)
Chapter 8 (#uee435ab9-3f47-505b-9367-e957c2706b6d)
Chapter 9 (#uecfc8cbc-1c4d-5dcd-a985-da1279d882b9)
Chapter 10 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 11 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 12 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 13 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 14 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 15 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 16 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 17 (#litres_trial_promo)
Part II (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 18 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 19 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 20 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 21 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 22 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 23 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 24 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 25 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 26 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 27 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 28 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 29 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 30 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 31 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 32 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 33 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 34 (#litres_trial_promo)
Part III (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 35 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 36 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 37 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 38 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 39 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 40 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 41 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 42 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 43 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 44 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 45 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 46 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 47 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 48 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 49 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 50 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 51 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 52 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 53 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 54 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 55 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 56 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 57 (#litres_trial_promo)
Epilogue (#litres_trial_promo)
Acknowledgments (#litres_trial_promo)
About the Author (#litres_trial_promo)
About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)
PROLOGUE (#ulink_3910c5c9-1c49-5144-b24b-0e9010ac4ea3)
T minus 25 years—CCSS Phoenix
Sixty seconds to detonation. Please evacuate the area.”
Kate ran toward the Phoenix’s infirmary, grumbling with frustration. When she’d told Captain Kelso they could evacuate quickly she had expected more than five minutes’ notice, and now there was no way they’d transfer everything in time. They had moved their patients and started shifting the most essential drugs, but she had fewer than half her everyday remedies, and almost no tools at all. At this rate, she would be practicing frontier medicine on the nine-week trip back to Earth. If anyone had a heart attack or a compound fracture in that time, Andy Kelso was going to be dealing with some injuries of his own.
She passed one of her clinicians running in the other direction, his arms full of vacuum-sealed pouches. “Last of the antigen packs,” he told her.
“I’ll get the scope,” she called over her shoulder. “Stay in the res wing.”
“Aye aye, Chief!” She heard his pace pick up.
“Fifty seconds to detonation. Please evacuate the area.”
