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Dead Reckoning is Book One of The Threshold — a literary military science fiction tetralogy of duty, complicity, and the cost of survival.
The war is twenty months old. The Federation has lost too many ships and too many worlds. The rebel colonies are not breaking.
Captain Jonas Kade commands the Federation's newest carrier — and a sealed cargo hold the Admiralty refuses to discuss. His orders, when they come, are signed by men with the authority to end the war in a single afternoon. The decision they have placed in his hands is one no commander in two centuries has been asked to make.
Commander Stellan Rowe is in the path of that decision. He fights for the colonies because the Federation went one war too far. He fights for a wife and three children on Velan, who only know that he is far away. He does not yet know that the man crossing the void toward him has been given a weapon his side cannot answer.
Both men were Federation officers once. Both men know the code. You do not abandon your ship. You do not fire on those who cannot fire back.
The code is about to fail.
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About the Author - Daniel E Mashmann
I am an indie novelist based in Maine, crafting narratives across epic fantasy, military science fiction, and alternate history. My work explores the brutal intersections of power and survival. Following a personal reinvention after my mother's passing, I transitioned a lifelong private dedication to world-building into a serious professional career. My stories capture the impossible choices people must make when their worlds fracture, examining the systems and human failings that define us.