Defiant

Lt. Peter Cochrane and his new wife, Karina, are under attack. When Peter and Karina escape an assault by a hostile government on his new command, Defiant, he travels with his wife to fend off an Empire attack on Skondar - which just so happens to be where his ex-lover, Dorbina, is stationed. Worse still, the attack is led by Prince Arin, the Butcher of Carinthia. As dark secrets that could change everything are revealed, Peter must face the battle of his life - one that could save the human race, or doom it... Book three in The Lightship Chronicles, a groundbreaking new-action adventure space opera from Dave Bara