P. J. Ochlan

Things get creepy when two ventriloquists' dummies with a plan to make everyone's lives miserable join Luke Harrison's father's horror movie prop collection.

After Ender won the Third Formic War, the alien threat to Earth was over. The spoils of victory included both hundreds of terraformed worlds and the near-light-speed drive needed to get humans to them. International Fleet became an arm of the Ministry of Colonization. ColMin now runs Fleet School on the old Battle School station and still recruits the best and brightest kids from the Fleet to train as the leaders of those colony ships and colonies....