Book 2 · January 26, 2027
Strange Matter
For every empire, there's an equal and opposite rebellion.
Earth has declared independence, and winning the cradle of humanity back calls for a seasoned diplomat, someone with tact, and a career of deft negotiation behind them. Instead, the Supreme Sovereign sends her brother. In a warship.
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Because when the Collective reaches out, it reaches with a closed fist — but Prince Fenix Vyyker-Chang, who has spent his life perfecting the art of not caring, may be the least qualified fist in the fleet. The only thing he actually wants is locked inside his mother's memory vial — and what's in there might rewrite everything he knows about her death.
Cassandra Cannon has the captain's chair of the most advanced warship ever built and a family coming apart inside its hull. Her brother is becoming someone she doesn't recognize. Her ship's newborn mind is growing fast — maybe too fast. And she's learning the hardest lesson of her life: you can't protect people from who they're becoming.
Then a zealot with an army and a decades-old grudge decides the fastest road to freedom runs through the royal family, and a diplomatic mission becomes a race to stop a weapon that could burn a world.