In the Spotlight: NOVA VENDETTA #1: The Injustice

This week, the Spotlight is on an UPCOMING Commonwealth Universe novel, coming from Writers Exchange. It's the back story to the SF romance novella, The Pirate and the Professor. Also, for some extra fun, this book and the others in the series are based on the book and movie (starring Errol Flynn) Captain Blood, by Raphael Sabatini. Don't you just love the old-time swashbucklers?

NOVA VENDETTA #1: The Injustice

Niall Encardi, our hero, is a medical student, ready to graduate and head back to the distant colony world where he was born. Unfortunately ... yet another coups has troubled the Central Allied Worlds -- that's First Civ, if you've been reading other Commonwealth Universe books, and you're familiar with the history of the Commonwealth, back before the Downfall era.

The new government of the CAW set about early to rid itself of all dissidents, even if their only "crime" is to belong to a colony world that hasn't declared its loyalty to the new regime even before news of the coups has reached them. Niall and many of his medical student friends are tossed onto a ship and hauled home, considered criminals when they haven't done anything at all.

New regimes rise and fall almost faster than word can reach the far distant colonies. Niall and his friends go from one false accusation and prison to another, shaped by circumstances and injustice, until what emerges at the end ... will be a captain and crew who will become legends, considered pirates by some, and heroes by many others. Witness the birth of Captain Niall Encardi of the Nova Vendetta.