This is a story about two people who are married and make mistakes. Hers is most common; she cheats on her husband. His is more severe: he takes action and changes their lives forever.
From boyhood to maturity, Bill Orton was a cautious but very successful man. Successful in every respect except his relationships with the women in his life. Would he ever find what he was looking for?
He thought he had it all. A beautiful wife he loved, one of the most successful companies in the state and the envy of many men. Then he came home one day unexpectedly and found his wife with another man. As he began to reflect on his life, however, he began to wonder who really cheated on whom?
A story INSPIRED by, but not part of, the Swarm Universe. The Confederacy is found culpable in the deaths of his parents because of an AI withholding information, resulting in a whole new world opening up for our MC, DeDeus Sanderson. Read of his encounters with the Confederacy and others as he gathers colonists.