Cursed Command Audiobook (Free)

Captain Kat Falcone owes her existence and career to her former right-hand man, William McElney, and she did everything in her power to make certain he was front and center for any promotion. But now that he has it, she fears he’ll have to view his back again. Captain McElney continues to be designated to HMS Uncanny—nicknamed Unlucky—a heavy cruiser tainted by the strange fatalities of two previous captains and gossips of mutineers. Nevertheless, as the interstellar war with the Theocracy rages on, the Uncanny will travel in tandem with Kat’s starship, HMS Lightning, towards the notoriously lawless Jorlem Sector to forge alliances for the Commonwealth and quash rampant piracy. As Captain McElney struggles to whip a hostile crew of miscreants right into a disciplined fighting push, Kat is usually saddled with an undermining new executive officer—an untested aristocrat whose bigotry shades his feeling of duty. Both captains income battle against ruthless pirates while conspirators aboard the Uncanny storyline to seize the ship. When the starships find themselves locked within a death match with an enemy juggernaut, Kat must make a eager and damaging sacrifice.