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Reality's Veil
The Dark Seas Series, lauded by readers, continues:
Sarah Dayson can't catch the break she needs.
After finally figuring out how to stop the Hive from destroying humanity, she's stopped in her tracks by an uncooperative despot, aliens more alien than ever thought possible, and a constant need to supply and maintain a slowly growing fleet of ships.
As Admiral Dayson tries desperately to reach her goals, her enemies move toward their own.
The Komi leadership plots to kill her and steal her technology. The Hive fortifies their positions and develops new technology with the sole purpose of hunting Sarah down and ending her fight. And unknown to her, a new enemy faction arises. A faction even more deadly than the Hive.
Deeply angry at the behavior of the Komi Syndicate, Sarah has no choice but to subdue them with the help of a rogue son, Lord Bannick Komi, who is in rebellion against his father, High Lord Urdoxander Komi. Once she wins this fight, she'll have the ships she needs. If Bannick keeps his word. With those ships will come the power to project her will on the Hive, and an end in sight to a war she's been fighting for most of her life.
But not even her allies cooperate with her agenda as she'd like, so once again Sarah is scrambling to stay afloat on the Dark Seas.
316 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 25, 2019
About the author
Damon Alan
21 books16 followersDamon Alan was born in Columbus, IN in 1966. He grew up in different southern Indiana locations, moving many times in his youth. Wherever he went, he was always the geek in the crowd, developing an early love for science fiction and fantasy. An avid fan of early sci-fi on TV, he hungrily consumed what was available and was upset if he couldn’t be Spock on the playground. That’s not doing a good job of staying in character, is it?
After becoming an adult, at least in name, he tried several different paths at college before finally realizing he didn't fit well with that sort of structure. He left school and joined the Air Force to be assigned to Space Command, which sounded much cooler than it probably was. (Although it was cool.) After leaving the Air Force in 1990, he applied to the FAA to be an Air Traffic Controller. In 1992 that became reality, and Damon became an ATC at the Indianapolis Air Route Traffic Control Center.
Retired from ATC now, Damon is pursuing creative writing as a second career, with a growing number of Amazon exclusive novels under his belt. His short stories have been traditionally published in a few places, including the 2018 Gen Con anthology as well as American Mensa’s annual fiction issue in 2016.
After becoming an adult, at least in name, he tried several different paths at college before finally realizing he didn't fit well with that sort of structure. He left school and joined the Air Force to be assigned to Space Command, which sounded much cooler than it probably was. (Although it was cool.) After leaving the Air Force in 1990, he applied to the FAA to be an Air Traffic Controller. In 1992 that became reality, and Damon became an ATC at the Indianapolis Air Route Traffic Control Center.
Retired from ATC now, Damon is pursuing creative writing as a second career, with a growing number of Amazon exclusive novels under his belt. His short stories have been traditionally published in a few places, including the 2018 Gen Con anthology as well as American Mensa’s annual fiction issue in 2016.
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May 11, 2020
Great Storyline
Once again you have excelled BUT I now have to wait for the last 2 books of this series to be released lol....😁😁😁😁
Once again you have excelled BUT I now have to wait for the last 2 books of this series to be released lol....😁😁😁😁
September 5, 2019
A tale of one woman's anger
At this point in the Dark Seas saga there are a lot of players on the game board, and as usual, the author is very adept at getting us inside the heads of even the most alien of them and making it believable. But in this book the central character, the one most like us-- Sarah Dayson-- goes off the rails. She gets angry, and it is not the cartoon anger that turns you into a superhero, it is the real-world sort of anger that makes you do cringe-worthy things that mess up your life. In this era where outrage is all but worshipped as a god, that is a rare thing to see, and it is courageous to portray it as such. That alone makes this book a special work; however, this is still space opera, and there is plenty of action in amongst the message for our times-- piracy, betrayal, space battles, and even a few love stories. Make sure you read the whole series or you will be completely lost, but rest assured that 7 books in the saga is still going strong.
At this point in the Dark Seas saga there are a lot of players on the game board, and as usual, the author is very adept at getting us inside the heads of even the most alien of them and making it believable. But in this book the central character, the one most like us-- Sarah Dayson-- goes off the rails. She gets angry, and it is not the cartoon anger that turns you into a superhero, it is the real-world sort of anger that makes you do cringe-worthy things that mess up your life. In this era where outrage is all but worshipped as a god, that is a rare thing to see, and it is courageous to portray it as such. That alone makes this book a special work; however, this is still space opera, and there is plenty of action in amongst the message for our times-- piracy, betrayal, space battles, and even a few love stories. Make sure you read the whole series or you will be completely lost, but rest assured that 7 books in the saga is still going strong.
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