The war for Earth is over. But humanity’s greatest threat may have been hiding all along.
Three years after the birth of the Alliance, mysterious attacks are devastating the shipping lanes that connect its worlds. As Isabelle Reynolds and Morgane Duval investigate an enemy that strikes from nowhere, a far more terrifying truth begins to emerge.
Meanwhile, Kira’s empathic abilities are growing beyond her control. Determined to uncover the truth about the Progenitors and the legendary Ark of Talus, she follows a trail leading to Aion Taleos, a system isolated from stringspace by an ancient and seemingly forgotten civilisation.
There, Kira will discover secrets older than humanity itself—and truths that could change everything she knows about the galaxy.
As the Alliance begins the liberation of the Azian homeworld, a new enemy launches an attack with devastating consequences. With the Alliance facing destruction from within and without, Kira finds herself at the heart of a conflict whose true origins reach further back than anyone could have imagined.
To save the Alliance, she must uncover the truth before it is too late.
Because somewhere in the darkness, the Progenitors wait
