BattleTech / Blood of Kerensky Trilogy / Michael A. Stackpole

Lethal Heritage: Victor Steiner-Davion, heir to the throne of the Federated Commonwealth, is fresh out of the academy and transferred to the far corner of nowhere. Kai Allard-Liao, the son of the great Justin Xiang Allard and Candace Liao, fears he can never live up to his parents’ formidable legacy. Shin Yodama is a yakuza soldier in the Draconis Combine army, tasked with protecting the grandson of Coordinator Takashi Kurita. Phelan Kell has followed in his father Morgan’s footsteps and serves in the mercenary group Kell Hounds. All four young men must face both internal and external dangers when a mysterious intruder from beyond the Periphery threatens everything they know and love.

Blood Legacy: The Clans have been stopped temporarily through the sacrifice of a young pilot. Jaime Wolf, commander of the mysterious and elite Wolf’s Dragoons mercenary unit, takes the opportunity to reveal the origin of this new menace: they are the descendants of the Star League Defense Force, which left the Inner Sphere over two hundred years ago after the collapse of the League. The Dragoons, themselves former Clanners, intend to train the heirs of the Successor States to fight and defeat the Clans, if old prejudices and hatreds don’t tear the Inner Sphere apart first. The first real test of this new-found sense of cooperation is the defense of Luthien, capital world of the Draconis Combine. But just what is the ultimate objective of the Clans?

Lost Destiny: The man once known as Phelan Kell has risen through the ranks in Clan Wolf and now stands to win a coveted Bloodname, the highest honor the Clans can bestow. Kai Allard-Liao is missing and presumed dead in the wake of a Clan Jade Falcon attack. Victor Steiner-Davion must mount a rescue of a man who once would have been considered his mortal enemy: Hohiro Kurita. And behind it all, ComStar lurks, ready to betray their Clan allies for the chance to fulfill their destiny as the saviors of humanity.