MALIGNED VALOR A Young Adult Military Science Fiction Novel

In my life, I have been kidnapped, attacked, beaten, and tortured. Now, they are accusing me of being everything that I hate. My name is William Alexander Armstrong, I am serving as an Initiate in the Drakkus Imperial Space Korps. I serve there for my friends, for the girl I love, and in the hopes that I can make things better. For once, we're on a mission of peace, trying to make allies, trying to build trust. Only, things have gone horribly wrong. Elements of the Drakkus Empire have been doing terrible things and they got caught. That's spiked the peace talks and now we're on the verge of war. That would be bad enough, except the people we've been helping are now accusing me of piracy and worse. I should just walk away, I should give up. The thing is, there's something rotten in the star system and I seem to be a magnet for that sort of trouble. There's a plot afoot, one designed to throw the entire Periphery into a state of war, and maligned or not, if I don't have the valor to stop it, no one will.