Autumn at Gauteng

Departure is no guarantee of peace.

On the brink of evacuating Abira, Staff Sergeant Imara Fermo and her Hospitaller team are thrust into one last, enigmatic mission. A hidden data bunker, missing Paladins, and a web of Allied Planets intrigue set the stage for a deadly game.

The Allied Planets’ narrative has cast the Hospitallers as aggressors.

But many on Abira remember who brought aid and who bled beside them. Now, as Imara is drawn into a final operation that could expose buried truths, she must do something even more daring. She will have to trust people she barely knows or understands.

Will her trust betray her? 

In a world where facts are flexible and memory is power, Imara must decide what’s worth risking to reveal the truth, and the people who still believe in it.