One of the today's most successful science fiction writers, Kevin J.
Anderson is the author of many popular Star Wars and X-Files novels, as
well as his bestselling Dune prequels, coauthored with Brian Herbert.
Now Anderson returns with a stunning new chapter in the Saga of Seven
Suns, his boldly imagined epic of interstellar intrigue and adventure...
The war between the alien hydrogues and the faeros rages, reducing suns to blackened shells-including one of the fabled seven suns of the
Ildiran Empire. Instead of protecting themselves, the Ildirans engage in bloody civil war and the many factions of humanity are bitterly
divided. Can mankind and Ildirans overcome their own internal fighting
to face a deadly new enemy that is ready to annihilate them?
Newly
ascended to the Ildiran throne, Mage-Imperator Jora'h must quash the
rebellion launched by his mad brother before the hydrogues destroy what
is left of the empire. Assailed from all sides, Jora'h turns to his
beloved half-human daughter, dispatching her on a desperate mission to
make peace with the hydrogues. Hope for humanity now rests with Jess
Tamblyn, who continues to seed worlds with the watery wentals, the
mortal enemies of the hydrogues. And on the ravaged planet of Theroc,
home to a telepathic worldforest, a dead man is resurrected to prepare
for the arrival of mysterious new allies in the fight.
But Chairman
Basil Wenceslas's vendetta against the free-spirited Roamers has blinded him to danger closer to home – the soldier machines that make up the
backbone of the Hansa fighting force. King Peter has long suspected that the compies, built with the help of the ancient Klikiss robots, cannot
be trusted. Now the shocking proof comes when the Klikiss launch their
long-planned extermination of all things flesh and blood. And in the
ensuing battle, humans and Ildirans alike will face their darkest
choices yet...
