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Humanity's last colony thought the silence meant it was safe. Orion Steele is an engineer, not a soldier. Then something from below the planet takes his wife.

What you get

The Prologue through Chapter 5 of Conflict Space: Swarm of the Hive (Director's Cut). About 43,000 words, from the ravine in Sector 7, through the night Hope's Landing falls, to the Valkyrie turning toward the Maw.
The Kepler Incident Dossier: the classified inquiry into how humanity's last ship came down.
The Sector 7 File: Captain Miller's full, uncut transmission from the Hollows.
The classified files, by email: personnel records, field notes, and the things the colony never told anyone. Read them and the book hits harder.

Who wrote this

I'm a prison officer in Lubbock, Texas. I wrote this book on my days off and between rideshare runs. If you like engineers who fix problems instead of shooting them, and aliens that are actually frightening, you're my reader.

— Paden Hodges