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Burning Suns: Conflagration, Issue 1 - Flint and Tinder
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Complete, First published Nov 13, 2015
Flint and Tinder: Issue 1 of Burning Suns: Conflagration

When Jennifer gets a job offer she can't really refuse, it's time to find herself a crew and, if possible, a decent cup of coffee.  Meanwhile, Keera wrangles a delicate political negotiation that could have far-reaching consequences for galactic security.

Synopsis for Conflagration:

Jennifer Bronwen, deep-space freighter skipper, sometime smuggler, and occasional blaster-for-hire is flat broke and in desperate need of a job. With her bills mounting and her ship one unlucky micrometeorite collision away from the scrapheap, when she's offered a lucrative contract for a risky heist, well, it's an opportunity she can't afford to pass up.  

Keera Naraymis, a secret agent on deep-cover assignment in alien space, has just one more job to finish before her mission is complete. Getting it right means making the galaxy a safer place, and taking a trip to the Terran homeworld should be simple enough. But in the espionage game, your enemies are never quite who they appear.

When their lives collide with catastrophic consequences, Jen and Keera form an unlikely alliance to find out why anyone would want to kill either one of them.  What they discover runs far deeper than they could ever have anticipated, and throws them into a race against time to stop a conspiracy that threatens to unravel a thousand years of peace in the galaxy of the Burning Suns.
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