Starcrossed

In a universe decimated by biological warfare, can former enemies unite to create a new peace out of the ashes?

A warrior-priest is the only one who can heal a failing empire...
Newly crowned Emperor of all jit'suku, Tigh has come back from self-imposed exile as a warrior monk on the sacred mountain. He had given up his claim to the throne in favor of his beloved brother, and turned his back on worldly things. Tigh would never know what had driven his brother to the madness of releasing a biological weapon on the humans, but the fact that it turned on its creators and came back to the jit'suku to deal out untold death, mostly among their precious female population, would forever stain Tigh's memories of his twin.

A starship captain with famous ancestry and a killer reputation...
They call her Valkyrie for the way she swoops into battle and usually saves the day. After losing her beloved ship in an ambush that almost cost the Valkyrie and her crew their...