Lindsay Buroker – Shockwave (Star Kingdom Book 1) – Kindle Editon

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Book overview
What if being a hero was encoded in your genes
And nobody told you
Casmir Dabrowski would laugh if someone asked him that. After all, he had to build a robot to protect himself from bullies when he was in school.
Fortunately, life is a little better these days. Hes an accomplished robotics engineer, a respected professor, and he almost never gets picked on in the lunchroom. But hes positive heroics are for other people. Until robot assassins stride onto campus and try to kill him.
Forced to flee the work he loves and the only home hes ever known, Casmir catches the first ship into space, where he hopes to buy time to figure out who wants him dead and why. If he cant, hell never be able to return home.
But he soon finds himself entangled with bounty hunters, mercenaries, and pirates, including the most feared criminal in the Star Kingdom: Captain Tenebris Rache.
Rache could snap his spine with one cybernetically enhanced finger, but he may be the only person with the answer Casmir desperately needs: What in his genes is worth killing for Twice nominated for the Goodreads Readers Choice awards, Lindsay Buroker has made a career of delighting fantasy and science fiction fans with fun, fast-paced adventures filled with characters you wish could come to your weekend barbecues. Join the fun, and grab a copy of Shockwave now