BattleTech: Scream (A Short Story) by Tom Leveen

HER SILENCE KEEPS HER ALIVE…

The only survivor of the massacre of her village, Elisabet Ashlan has made a new life for herself as part of a mercenary salvage crew. She’s good at her job, and best of all, she doesn’t have to talk. To anyone. Ever.

Their latest job has them salvaging ’Mechs on Amber Grove, a planet recently seized from the Taurian Concordat by the Federated Suns. The Suns have hired notorious merc unit Hansen’s Roughriders  to eradicate any Taurian defenses the planet back…and the Roughriders have been doing just that.

And when Elisabet’s crew finds evidence of a war crime committed during the fighting, the team has to figure out just what to do with this information before it becomes too deadly to handle. And Elisabet will have to make the choice to finally speak up…or take this information to her grave…

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