When humanity's best fighter pilot is captured by the enemy she's sworn to destroy, she discovers the war that killed her brother was built on a lie—and the alien commander who took her prisoner might be the only person in the galaxy she can trust.
Wing Commander Mara Voss has spent three years fighting the Vaelhari, the alien fleet that shattered human expansion and left her brother dead in the ruins of Calloway Station. She's the Coalition's most decorated pilot, their greatest weapon—until a desperate mission goes wrong and she finds herself prisoner aboard an enemy ship.
Her captor is Kael'Veth, the brilliant Vaelhari commander whose bioluminescent markings betray every emotion he tries to hide. He should be her enemy. Instead, when an ancient threat emerges from deep space—something that makes the war between humans and Vaelhari look like a children's game—they're forced to work together to survive.
But cooperation becomes something deeper when Mara discovers the records hidden in the Vaelhari archives. The truth about Calloway Station. The truth about her brother's death. The truth about a war that was never supposed to happen.
Now Mara faces an impossible choice: loyalty to the Coalition that raised her, or justice for the lies that destroyed everything she believed in. Because Admiral Holt, the architect of the deception, isn't finished. She's planning one final strike that will bury the truth forever—along with anyone who knows it.
Racing against time and impossible odds, Mara must expose fifteen years of deception before the lie destroys two civilizations. But she can't do it alone. She needs the one person who sees her not as a weapon or an enemy, but as someone worth saving.
Even if saving her means sacrificing everything he's fought for.
A sweeping space opera romance about finding truth in a galaxy built on lies, and discovering that the enemy of your enemy might just be the love of your life.
Perfect for fans of Fourth Wing, Ice Planet Barbarians, and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo in space.
