Bones

The 30-page short story that inspired the First Fleet novella trilogy!

In a war many light years away, among the ruins of an ancient alien civilization, our fallen soldiers return from the front lines in pieces. Medical pods regenerate the remains of these soldiers so their mind and consciousness can be downloaded into their freshly regrown body.

But something at the front lines... something inside the ruins... has been killing our soldiers faster than we could grow them. When a pod arrives with more than just the pieces of a fallen soldier, what begins to regenerate inside is something unimaginably powerful.

If it awakens, we will have lost a war we didn’t even know we started.
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FIRST FLEET - Novella Series Overview
In the follow up novellas (First Fleet #2-4), the fleet has disappeared without a trace after sending a single terrifying transmission... Now, a young scientist must race against the clock and face her greatest fears to save her only sister from an unknown fate.