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Reason For Vengeance

Name: Reason For Vengeance
Rating: 4.11 (76 reviews)
Author: Adrian D. Roberts

Adrian D. Roberts August 12, 2014

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Major Valerie Carter is the best the Legion has ever known. With Shadow Company, the foremost elite unit of the Pantheon, she has fought on countless worlds for masters who care for only power and wealth.

Hanna is an orphan who has seen the wonders of the Privileged but known only grief, hunger and pain in her fourteen years. Now her chance to change her life has arrived but to do so she must rely on a drunken, broken soldier who has lost everything.

The Privileged live lavishly at the expensive of the rest of humanity and they must maintain the Pantheon as the pre-eminent civilisation. A class war has been brewing for centuries and all it would take is one persons need for Vengeance to ignite it.

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