Her fleet burned in orbit. Her crew is dead. The weapon waking beneath the colony was never meant for human hands.
Commander Soraya Venn commands the only surviving warship of the Cinder Fleet, a battle-scarred frigate with a skeleton crew and a broken railgun. Her orders are to evacuate a scientific outpost before enemy forces arrive.
But the outpost is empty. The scientists have vanished into tunnels that predate human evolution. Inside those tunnels, Venn discovers a derelict alien engine that does not generate power. It rewrites causality. With it, any faction could end a war before it begins or erase an enemy from existence.
Admiral Toren Vex is hours away. He does not want the engine. He wants to destroy it and take every witness with him. Venn’s crew is outgunned, outnumbered, and light-years from rescue.
No reinforcements. No retreat. One ship against oblivion.
Join the last battle of the Cinder Fleet. Turn the page or lose the war before it starts.