Birth of the Defender

Two stories, worlds apart, yet somehow connected.

On the backward world of Galat, an inconsequential planet, a young pregnant woman flees for her life. An ancient prophecy predicts the downfall of regimes with the birth of her child. The world is barely past the stone age, yet the child's birth will be felt across the galaxy.

On Juranta, a more advanced world, a former covert ops agent marries an accountant and daughter of two engineering geniuses. Months later, Tristan and Jessica's child is bornthe child also heralded by the ancient prophecya prophecy his family has been forbidden to speak of.

A mysterious figure schemes to thwart the prophecies. Jessica's brother, the future admiral, Robert Deacons, witnesses the birth of the Galatan baby, and saves the lives of the infant and his mother. He suspects the child belongs to the enemy of his childhood, but he refuses to harm an innocent child. His gut tells him his enemy has already won, even if the battle hasn't started.

Robert returns to meet his newborn nephew, David Liam Alexander, a future Commonwealth captain. How are the two infants connected? What secrets bind them together? Come find out.

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