Four broke freelancers on a dying freighter take a 250-million-credit contract to steal a quasi-sentient nanobot factory from a corporate black site. They get it aboard. That is when they stop being in charge.
Captain Bogdan Volkov, a disgraced corporate strategist, stares at a ledger that says ninety-four days of risk earned his crew 7,342 credits. The Golden Fleece is failing around them: Valya, the pilot, is losing his edge dodging repo drones; Lena, the infiltrator, is reduced to threatening broken comms with a wrench; Vanya, the engineer, is a genius patching twenty-year-old systems with spit and prayer. Then a contract appears with a single word for the asset. Zlato. The target is Astrov-Kornilov Research Outpost 7 in the Epsilon Eridani system, guarded by a predictive security intelligence called Charon.
The infiltration is the first third of the story. What follows is the price. Zlato has a purpose of its own, a threat it has read in the galactic core, and a plan that requires a ship, a crew and years. The four thieves become essential biomechanical assets on a mission they never chose, carried toward choices that no payout can cover.
Here be Monsters is a standalone novel by K.R. Calder.
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Chapters:
0:00 Chapter 1 The Last Straw
16:52 Chapter 2 The Impossible Contract
34:10 Chapter 3 Planning the Impossible
51:29 Chapter 4 Infiltration
1:11:24 Chapter 5 The Inner Sanctum
1:29:05 Chapter 6 The Unwilling Partnership
1:44:35 Chapter 7 The Cosmic Conscription
1:58:09 Chapter 8 The Point of No Return
2:10:20 Chapter 9 Comforts and Confinement
2:23:38 Chapter 10 The Debt Collectors
2:38:26 Chapter 11 The Gifts of Zlato
2:51:11 Chapter 12 First Contact
3:07:18 Chapter 13 Engineering Snares
3:18:55 Chapter 14 The Predator’s Return
3:33:10 Chapter 15 Close Call
3:47:17 Chapter 16 The Weight of Years
3:59:49 Chapter 17 Zlato’s Grand Design
4:12:36 Chapter 18 The Horrifying Solution
4:25:05 Chapter 19 Collateral Damage
4:39:59 Chapter 20 The Final Promise
4:51:57 Chapter 21 Into the Darkness
5:05:34 Chapter 22 The First Extinguishment
5:18:26 Chapter 23 Echoes of Life
5:32:14 Chapter 24 Military Interference
5:45:23 Chapter 25 Vanya’s Gambit
5:59:18 Chapter 26 Lena’s Ghost
6:14:44 Chapter 27 The Core’s Embrace
6:27:39 Chapter 28 The Ultimate Confrontation
6:43:26 Chapter 29 The Cosmic Heartbeat
6:57:00 Chapter 30 Silence and Sacrifice
7:09:06 Chapter 31 The New Normal
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