Toxic Cargo (Tales from the Rusty Splinter, #4)
About
The crew of the Rusty Splinter thought they had finally hit the jackpot with a simple, high-paying escort mission for the Nar-Vek cartel. The job was straightforward: transport a sealed, high-security container through deep hyperspace and don’t ask questions. For Captain Zane and his pack, it was supposed to be the easy credits they needed to stay off the corporate radar.
But the void doesn’t give away credits for free.
When a structural failure leads to a catastrophic leak in the cargo hold, the ship is flooded with an experimental biological gas—a toxin designed to rewrite the laws of attraction and fear.
As the toxin forces their nervous systems into a primal, telepathic mind-meld, the boundaries between the crew begin to dissolve. To stay sane in the face of paralyzing hallucinations and the cartel’s encroaching shadows, the pack must surrender to a dark, new symbiosis.
Trapped between a lethal betrayal and the shattering of their own minds, they will have to prove that even in the coldest reaches of space, the bond of the pack is the only thing that cannot be broken.