It is 2643. Hundreds of billions of people live amongst the stars, ascendant amongst the firmament, gods in their own right. Disease has been defeated; war is a thing of the past. A golden age of prosperity beckons
But now something has gone terribly wrong. Far from Earth an old foe is gathering its strength, infiltrating the bastions of democracy and preparing to finish what it began decades ago. Interstellar war beckons and only one person is close enough to the shadows to stop it.
Suzy Cole is an iconic journalist in the Galaxy’s foremost democracy; young, beautiful and successful, but haunted by a war a thousand light years away and in love with humanity’s most wanted terrorist. As cracks appear in the old order, Suzy finds herself the prime suspect in a brutal murder and hunted by an assassin who’s been dead for twenty years.
On the run on the shadowy fringes of a beacon of prosperity, she is inexorably drawn into an ancient conspiracy that will change her life and the future of humanity forever. Implacable, inexorable, insidious, it pursues her from world to world, across the great divide and to the distant source of a terrible truth that threatens everything she loves.
Deep beneath the enigmatic façade of humanity’s Galaxy lies something more ancient, more evil. The shadow aspect...
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