Parliament has rejected the cease-fire agreement and declared war on the four remaining fringe worlds. Its armada thunders across the fringe, killing anyone in its path.
Terra is the first to fall, and the torrents are sent running for their lives.
The fight for independence is doomed unless the torrent leaders can bring the odds back in their favor. To turn the tide, Reyne must reclaim a colony once destroyed by a deadly blight, and Critch must strike at the very heart of the Collective.
The fringe has the numbers, but the Collective has the technology and the weapons.
To win, the torrents will have to sacrifice everything to defeat the Collective, and even then, it may not be enough. Can the torrents survive long enough to win their freedom before the armada bombs every colony into oblivion?
The battles will be waged in the colonies. Families will be torn apart. The torrents must prevail, or else every last fringe colonist will die.
Rachel Aukes is a bestselling author known for gritty science fiction and chilling horror that explore humanity at the edge. She’s written over forty novels, including 100 Days in Deadland—a zombie apocalypse retelling of Dante’s Inferno that was named a “Best of the Year” pick by Suspense Magazine—and The Lazarus Key, a high-octane sci-fi thriller featured by The Big Thrill magazine. One of Wattpad’s first Stars, her stories have reached over eight million readers around the world.
Rachel is a licensed pilot, former tech executive, and lifelong comic book collector. When not plotting the end of humanity, she hikes state and national parks with her dog.