Returned to active duty by the Guardians, a special-forces branch of Earth’s World Government, Field Commander Terese Drajeske is sent to probe the murder of an old friend and Guardian colleague in the Erasmus System—where everyone is a slave, a smuggler or a spy. But the investigation is just a pretense. Terese’s real mission is to spy on the Bloods, one of the ruling families of Erasmus, who may be plotting to launch a war upon the solar system. Plunged into a vortex of deception, shattered lives and dreadful secrets, Terese risks her life to seek the truth…but what she finds is the unbelievable. A tightly constructed tanglebox of political manipulation, C.L. Anderson’s debut novel, Bitter Angels, will have you clamoring for more.