The Middle Road (Middleton's Pride, Book 7)

The Middle Road

(Spineward Sectors: Middleton’s Pride, Book 7)

Captain Tim Middleton just won the impossible battle.

Now comes the impossible war.

With Commodore Paganini’s fleet reduced to scrap and the Empire of Man licking its wounds, Middleton is handed command of the newborn Alliance Gorgonus—a fragile coalition of humans, uplifted felines, gene-forged apes, and the enigmatic Prichtac. But holding the alliance together may be harder than winning it.

Void Hunter Clans demand blood for old grudges.

The mighty Stalwart are one insult away from walking out.

A mysterious Crafter offers forbidden Locust technology—if Middleton will pay the price.

And deep in the wreckage of a long-abandoned Bug Harvester, a broken brain-bug is trying to speak… in a language only Kongming can understand.

As Middleton races to upgrade his fleet with ancient turbo-laser tech and hunt down the next Imperial strike force, he discovers the real war may not be with the Empire at all. Something older, darker, and far more patient is watching from the shadows of the Gorgon Sectors—and it has already begun to move.

From blood-soaked gladiatorial arenas to bridge-to-bridge fleet combat, from backroom political knife fights to the terrifying first contact with the Locusts, The Middle Road is the explosive seventh chapter in Caleb Wachter’s bestselling military sci-fi saga.

Loyalty will be tested.

Alliances will shatter.

And one man will learn that sometimes the only way forward… is straight through the middle.

The Empire is coming.

The alliance is breaking.

The Locusts are already here.

Read The Middle Road now—because in the Gorgon Sectors, there is no high road, no low road… only the one you carve with fire and will.