A forgotten hero desperate for work. A lost love reincarnated in a shapeshifting alien. What could possibly go wrong?

An outer arm of the Milky Way, 2420. Cliff Crane is just trying to get by with nothing. Four hundred years after saving the human race during the Vampire Wars, the legendary werewolf finds himself far from Earth with only the ghost of his ex-lover as company. Taking a lucrative job safeguarding a shipment of indentured alien shapeshifters, he believes life will get better… until one passenger takes the form of his high school crush.

Torn between the admonitions of the apparition in his head and the alluring temptation before his eyes, Cliff struggles to resist the lookalike girl’s pleas to set her free. But if he gives in, he’ll invoke the wrath of a powerful oligarch. And then there’ll be nowhere in the universe he can hide.

Will Cliff’s yearning to redo his past destroy his future?

The Cargo is a shifter space opera love story with a gut-wrenching twist. It’s the introductory novella in the genre-bending Spaceship Huey Adventures, space colonization fiction in a galactic empire series. If you like magical mashups, engrossing stories, and witty banter, then you’ll love John Hundley’s ferocious adventure.