THE RECKONING A Dust & Stardust Novel Book 5: For the ones who stayed the ones who fought and the ones who chose to come home. (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798255161270)

Six months after the events of the previous book, the crew of the Persistence (formerly the Rustbucket) is being actively hunted. Commander Idris Draven, a former enforcement officer dismissed for his obsessive commitment to completing tasks has dedicated the last eighteen months to studying Captain Cade Merrick. Draven has built a 412-page dossier profiling Cade's psychological patterns, viewing his loyalty and his love for co-pilot Lyra Voss as strategic vulnerabilities.

The action spans the vast and largely uncharted Calloway Expanse. Key locations include Planet Keri's a world with amber skies and plains of moving silver grass, and the dense, rust-and-purple Orvex Nebula, which causes extreme sensor interference for both the hunters and the hunted.

To guarantee capture of the ship and its highly coveted Aehari active shield and jump drive technologies, Draven forms an uneasy alliance with Commander Zara Hetch's private military fleet and the powerful criminal Syndicate. Together, they deploy a massive 41-ship net across the Expanse.