Sometimes it pays to be a pirate! This three-book omnibus edition contains the following novels from the Burning Son Series 1. The Burning Son 2. Marque of the Son 3. Son Rise Five hundred years in the future, humanity has colonized the stars. We also discovered we aren’t alone. The Terran Confederacy has an uneasy peace with the three other races, but the independent colonies aren’t as lucky. The Erethizon are on a to forcibly convert the galaxy to their religion. Mark Martin is a fighter pilot defending his homeworld from the alien menace when abruptly the war is over. His people have lost. He must escape or be used as a pawn to control his father, an influential senator. A chance encounter with smugglers may be his only hope. Can he join them, or will they sell him to the alien invaders?