The Language of Lies

A short story prequel to Across the Broken Stars by Jed Herne, featuring Walter Drayton and set a year after the Invasion War. Walter Drayton is a broken man. Crippled by the war and unable to live with his family on his home planet, he has returned to Paya, wandering between discs without purpose or passion. Pain is all he has. When an important noble is murdered, Drayton is called in to help with the investigation. And, in doing so, he discovers a cause he can put his pain towards … There are no monsters. Only those twisted by the past.