Jethri Gobelyn has risen far: from despised youngest on a Terran family Loop ship to second trader on premier Liaden tradeship Elthoria. Jethri has inherited a mission from his father, a plan that will allow family Loop ships like the one he grew up on to survive the encroachment of Rostov’s Dust. In this, he’s backed by several prominent Looper families who are scheduled to meet and plan at the South Axis Trade Fair. But the mission will be a test of his loyalties, as he’s thrust into a tangle of gray-trading, mistaken identity, misinformation, and galactic politics.

He's up to his eyeballs in debt to pay for school, and he's just moved his small family forty light-years from Earth for a plum job with the wealthy interstellar corporation, The Sarovar Company. John's first assignment is to discreetly investigate possible corruption at the remote Arrowhawk Station, where Company traders buy the famous Sarovari Weave from the three-sided, crablike Weavers. He soon finds evidence of theft and worse, but when the guilty parties realize he's getting close, they come after him and his family. With no way back to Earth, the only direction for John Abbott and his family to go is forward—into danger.

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In D.J. Butler’s latest novel, Abbott in Darkness, family man John Abbott decides to go all in on a risky job on a far-flung colony world, where things are not what they first seem. To celebrate, we’re giving away a signed copy of the novel, and it couldn’t be easier to throw your lot in with John Abbott. Just send us an email with your name and you’ll be entered into our random drawing! One entry per person, please.

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Coming soon to the Baen Free Radio Hour: Butler on Abbott in Darkness; Sharon Lee and Steve Miller discuss Fair Trade; and Josh Hayes talks to an all-star panel about Anne McCaffrey and S.M. Stirling’s The City Who Fought. Plus our ongoing audiobook serialization of Timothy Zahn’s Cobra.

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