Second Contact — J.D. Austin

Mankind is attempting to contact alien life. Unfortunately, they're screening their calls.

Dangling on the edge of the galaxy is Kivlan, a planet reputed to be a gracious and accommodating paradise. Even its name means tranquility -- but apparently in some dead language, because when an earthship sends out a friendly hello, Kivlan immediately responds with missile fire.
 
Leave it to Earth to give peace one more chance -- by dispatching one more ship to Kivlan. And Matt Wiener, its optimistic captain, isn't traveling way the hell out there just to make enemies. A real straight-arrow, he's prepared to do what it takes to keep the universe in harmony. Even if it kills them all.