(Juliet Marillier comes to mind for her amazing Blackthorn and Grim series - unfortunately, she was in, but her publisher wasn't.) I contacted Michelle Diener a year or two ago, and begged her to do another novel in this fantastic series. I could not put it down! As an avid reader and audiobookphile, this isn't the first time I've contacted an author to beg them to continue a beloved series. It's the most edge of your seat action in any of the books, and that's saying a lot. The love story blossoms from the experience the two mains share as they struggle to survive on this strange world. We experience their weather and their belief system, too, and it's jam packed with action both on a Class 5 and on yet another Greion ship. What a great story! Dark Matter's is set on the Tekron world (a first), and we visit their culture as they go about their lives. Her books flow from one to the next, but each has an ending of it's own. The Dark Horse series is the best sci fi/romance series I've ever found and I can't say enough good things about Michelle Diener's skill as a story teller. Note: Dark Matters can be listened to as a standalone novel but is part of a larger story arc in the Class 5 series. And if that means war for Tecra, well, then it means war. While he distrusts Bane on principle, when the thinking system tells him there's a woman running for her life on the planet below, he will do whatever he has to to see her safe. His mission is not one of his choosing, but when he and his team arrive, he's handed a very different job. Paxe admitted to taking Lucy Harris from Earth, and Bane has been looking for her ever since.Ĭommander Dray Helvan thinks the Grih made a mistake in not pushing for war with the Tecran, but he's had to accept the compromise, that he and the other envoys from the United Council will go to Tecra and dismantle its military from the top down. But his mission isn't only to rain down retribution on the people who kept him chained for years, he's also looking for a human woman his fellow Class 5 thinking system mentioned in the final seconds of his life. He revels in the power he's about to have over his old masters. The powerful AI battleship, Bane, is accompanying the United Council envoy to Tecra to mete out the punishment the Tecrans have earned for breaking UC law. When your very existence puts a planet at the risk of war, there's no choice but to do everything in your power to stay out of your enemies' hands.Ī predator.waiting for the chance to pounce

But even as her abductors chase her down, she realizes they don't just want to recapture her, they want to erase her.

Lucy Harris is on the run, not sure where she can turn to for help, or if help is even available.

Dark Class by Michelle Diener