J Fitzpatrick Mauldin: 2 books

A cunning young girl comes face to face with an interstellar threat when her mother and grandfather are murdered aboard their ship while making contact with a mysterious entity. Alone, and with no way home, Bellamy makes a deal with an alien intelligence to chase the signal of her mother's soul to a facility light years away in the hope she might be resurrected and the two of them reunited.

An interplanetary duel between two warships will decide the fate of all lives on Mars. With annihilation in sight, the protection of thousands falls onto the shoulders of a man with a sordid past and his once companion nearly lost to the circumstances of their former lives. Alone, neither of them...