This story is a prequel to Susan R. Matthews’s new novel, Blood Enemies, part of her critically acclaimed Under Jurisdiction series. In Blood Enemies, former Fleet Inquisitor Andre Kosciusko reunites with the enslaved “bond involuntaries” we meet in the preceding story. He has helped to free them from their technological chains. Now they must face an enemy more implacable and evil than even the totalitarian Jurisdiction from which they’ve escaped into Gonebeyond Space.
After earning an undergraduate degree in psychology, Susan R. Matthews was commisioned into the United States Army, where she was the operations and security officer for a combat support hospital specializing in nuclear, biological, and radiological warfare. Currently working as an auditor for an aerospace manufacturer, Susan lives with her partner in Seattle, Washington.