Hard Drop

The Concordat don’t just kill worlds, they harvest them. And Sergeant Ned Bresto just led them home.

When Bresto’s spec ops team boarded a derelict to rescue an undercover operative, they found themselves inside a Concordat forge ship, face to face with the ancient enemy that scoured Dead Earth centuries ago. They barely escaped, but something awoke inside that ship, and now it’s coming for his home world Aegia.

Bresto has seen what the Concordat do to the people they take. He fought the Lost — the twisted things that used to be human — aboard that derelict. Now, while commanders debate and politicians deny, he knows his family is running out of time.

His CO wants him for a classified mission that could end this war. But ending the war means leaving his world and family behind. As orbital defenses fall and Aegia’s mountain city burns, he faces an impossible choice: follow orders to save humanity, or abandon everything to save his family.

One choice. No right answers. Just consequences. Now Bresto has to live with it, or die trying to stop it.

Hard Drop is the explosive first novel in the Colonial Defense Marines trilogy, continuing the universe established in B.R. Keid’s Autonomous Weapons Division series. Perfect for fans of military science fiction, brutal ground combat, and impossible choices under fire.