The Search for Kracks

The Linda Eccles Series - Volume Two

De: ROBERT WOODARD

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Book 2 of the Linda Eccles Series, where trust is the mission and understanding is survival.

Three years ago, she barely survived humanity’s first contact with alien life. Now they’re asking her to go back.

After The Chance Encounter, Linda Eccles lost everything:
her command,
her career,
her future.
Now she pilots a short-range freighter, trying to forget.

She can't.

The alien buoy from her first encounter has revealed its secrets: the Kracks were never finished with humanity.

Admiral Philip Litton returns with an impossible offer. Earth Defense has decoded enough to know communication is possible. They're ready to try again.

But they need someone who survived the Kracks once. Someone who knows the cost of failure.

They need Linda.

The mission: Return to that deadly sector. Find the Kracks. Make peace.

Simple, except Linda still has nightmares about the day her crew nearly died.

Can she face the species that haunts her dreams? Can she trust the admiral asking her to risk everything again?

More importantly, can the Kracks trust her?

The Kracks haven’t been idle these three years.

While humanity analyzes the buoy, the Kracks have been preparing, watching, wondering if the beings from that violent encounter would return, and whether they’d come in peace or with weapons.

Council Leader Klickest carries the weight of that disastrous meeting. He knows mistakes were made. Orders were followed that should have been questioned. Lives were lost on both sides that didn’t have to be.

He wants a second chance. But wanting peace and achieving it are very different things.

As two former enemies reach for understanding, the universe throws them a curveball.

A third alien species emerges.

Unknown. Unpredictable. With their own agenda.

Suddenly, making peace with the Kracks becomes the least of Linda’s problems.

Now she must navigate a three-way collision of civilizations where:

• One wrong word could reignite war
• One misunderstood gesture could provoke the unknown
• One failure of diplomacy could doom three worlds

The stakes aren’t just Linda’s crew anymore, they’re the future of three civilizations balanced between alliance and annihilation.

This is a space opera where words become weapons and trust is the most dangerous gamble of all.

What Makes This Story Unmissable:

• A captain’s redemption — Linda returns as humanity’s last hope.
• Three viewpoints collide — Human, Krack, and an unknown force.
• Diplomacy on a knife’s edge — One mistake could mean war.
• The Kracks revealed — Not monsters, but leaders with limits.
• A new species appears — Just when peace seems possible.
• Emotion-first sci-fi — Heart and courage over firepower.
• Ever-rising stakes — Every choice risks entire civilizations.

Three Species. Three Perspectives. One Chance to Rewrite History.

Linda didn’t want this mission. She didn’t want to face the Kracks again. She didn’t want to relive the worst moment of her career.

But some calls can’t be ignored.

The first encounter taught them that fear destroys. The second will test whether forgiveness can rebuild.

When communication is survival and silence is extinction, can Linda bridge the impossible space between three worlds?

The first encounter broke them. The second will define them. The third species may destroy them all.

Continue the journey. Witness the search for understanding.

Start reading now, because some encounters are worth a second chance.