The Long Road Home — Chris Hechtl

The fall of Horath had Warrant Officer Jethro McClintock and most of the surviving members of his Cadre unit scrambling for survival. They managed to jump away into hyperspace just before the energy wave of the wrath of a dying star caught up with them.Marooned in space, the survivors must find a way to continue their survival or die in the long night. There was no quick way home. Jethro's family back home has to make do without him. But, one way or another, that black cat and his friends are going to pull out all the stops and take the long road home. Or die trying.