Shadow and Steel
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Last published Fri, Mar 7, 2025
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🏆X3 Awarded Best Science Fiction
🏆 Awarded Best Action
🏆 Awarded Best Novel
🏆 Chosen as Book of the Month by @CroodsGirl
Shadow and Steel: A Sci-Fi Short Story Series.
In a time when mankind has reached the stars, the light of progress does not shine upon all. On the fringes of known space, survival is a brutal dance of skill, cunning, and ruthlessness.
Meet a hustler chasing the next score; a doctor trying to mend a broken world; an enforcer wrestling his demons; and a pilot who bends the rules of the sky. Each fights their own battles, until their lives become entangled in a web of dangerous alliances, shifting loyalties, and interstellar power struggles.
Caught between blaster shoot-outs, high-speed starship chases and an unforgiving universe that devours the weak, the line between good and evil is as blurred as the stars themselves.
In the silence of space, you either bleed out in Shadow or carve your path on Steel.
Content Warning: This series contains violence, gore, death, harassment, strong language, drinking, drug use, psychological trauma, and mature situations. Reader discretion is advised.
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