With a lasting peace established and the evacuation of Groombridge underway, Emma is free to return to the one role she desires: part of a ship’s crew. She is both surprised and concerned when that role becomes the captain of Batfish and its crew of twelve. They are assigned to Fleet Saturn, pushing further into the decay and anarchy of what was once a great union of races.
Niko leaves Ophiuchi for the surface of Eridani, against everyone’s advice. Of all the planets discovered by the fleets of Earth, none are considered as dangerous as Eridani.
Abby’s freewheeling team leaves Groombridge for Seemak as they investigate the destruction of the Odishi fleet 400 years earlier.
After more than a year on Earth, Naomi is happy with her posting to Seemak, where she joins a top-heavy platoon of SEALs. What should be a quiet tour of duty becomes much more when she inherits her friends' troubles.
Purgatory Awaits, the second book of the Outbound series, continues where Book One ended. It follows four close friends as humanity expands outward.