Five hundred years after landing on the planet Arion, Earth’s only interstellar colony stands on the brink of war. Soldiers, spies, and civilians alike are drawn into the conflict that threatens to undermine the colony’s original purpose: to save mankind from extinction. Trust and cooperation are in short supply on Arion as alliances crumble, bandit attacks continue to rise, and magnetic storms destroy all but the simplest machines. Alex Vonn, a troubled university student, couldn’t care less about any of this until his only friend is tortured by foreign spies aboard the remains of a buried spaceship. When the spies flee the region, Alex joins the pursuit team as a Deputy Marshal for the Alliance. However, he soon finds himself a pawn in the battle between survival and dominance, and he must decide whom to trust if he wants to avert the coming war. The first book in the Marshals of Arion series.