Midwinter Fury

Following a trail of murder and treason, Mark Ibsen travels to the ice world Midwinter - and finds that the stakes are even higher than he has imagined. Meanwhile, hostile ships lurk at the edges of backwater Imperial systems and the sorely stretched forces of First Fleet must call for help. But High Admiral Monk has vanished, along with most of Second Fleet, and Capitol Fleet cannot leave the Emperor unguarded. The enemies of the Empire are gathering, and the grand conspiracies they have sown will wreak havoc across light years of space! The Empire Dance is a continuing series of short novels (each clocking in at around 50k words) set in the far-future Empire of the Three Hundred Worlds. The series follows investigator Mark Ibsen, Imperial spy Chris Taylor, and the crew of the Drift Ghost as their lives are caught up in the conflicts that threaten to tear the Empire apart. The first "arc" of the series - the first five books - is currently underway, with the first two volumes already available in digital and paper formats.