Crossing the Line

In Karen Traviss's "Crossing the Line," former Environmental Enforcement Officer Shan Frankland finds her life irrevocably altered after contracting an alien virus. Seeking refuge and a new purpose, she ventures to Cavanagh's Star, a perilous planet at the heart of an escalating interstellar conflict. Her initial mission to aid a lost colony soon spirals into something far more profound as she stumbles into forbidden territories, transcending the boundaries of neutrality and even her own humanity. Cavanagh's Star is coveted by two powerful alien factions and fiercely defended by a third, but the true instigators of the coming war are revealed to be humans from Earth. Now a vital prize or a dangerous threat, Shan must navigate a complex web of loyalties and moral dilemmas. To protect this fragile world and its native inhabitants, she may be forced to contemplate the unthinkable: the destruction of her own invasive species, pushing her beyond all previous lines.