For years Gregory Roarke and his Kadolian partner Selene worked as crocketts, combing through the atmospheres of uninhabited worlds for places that might be colonized or hold valuable resources. Now, they quietly work for the Icarus Group, a top-secret government organization hunting for portals created by a long-vanished alien race, portals that can teleport a person hundreds or thousands of light-years in the blink of an eye.

But the alien Patth are also searching for such portals, and they are also on the trail. It’s now a race . . . and the Patth have resources and ruthlessness far beyond anything Roarke and Selene can match.

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When Jayce Artan, a dock rat on a poor fringe world, is hired to guide a boat crewed by an interstellar mafia, he comes face to face with an ancient power—the Veil—that was pivotal to a civil war that ended decades ago. Jayce is “Attuned” to this power and was almost killed by agents of the dead and defeated Tyrant, who nearly enslaved the galaxy. He is rescued by an Adept of the Paragon order, warrior scholars that study the power and seek to keep any from upsetting the balance that keeps all life in order.

Now, Jayce must journey beyond the Veil, into another dimension, to claim a stone of immense power before the Tyrant’s agents can beat him to the prize.

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Caine Riordan and his self-styled “Crewe” have survived their first months on the planet they call Bactradgaria, with their most desperate struggles being against the wildly ferocious x’qao, for whom the pursuit and genocide of other beings is as much a sport as it is a strategy. Caine and his friends realize that if they are to endure, they must not merely survive but thrive. But to do that, humans must claw higher up the food chain . . . before they tumble off into extinction.

Talia Merritt, a former military sniper once known as Death’s Handmaiden, is a woman haunted by her past. But Talia is hoping to leave all that behind and start anew on the colony world of Gōruden, a hardscrabble planet of frontier-minded people seeking a better life. But soon, Talia finds herself thrust into the start of another conflict. With the fate of a planet and her own peace of mind hanging in the balance, Talia must decide whether or not to once again take up the mantle of Death’s Handmaiden.

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For a decade, Baen Books has sponsored the Baen Fantasy Adventure Award, highlighting upcoming voices in the grand tradition of Tolkien, Howard, Brackett, and more. This year, we’re thrilled to present “The Hitchhiker on Souls’ Road” by A.A. Nour.

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