Telam has declared independence—and the Ascendancy is coming to crush it.

Regent-Marshal Alora Soleis will do anything to preserve her world’s freedom, even as grief, paranoia, and power turn her rule into something harder and more dangerous.

But when a rogue planet enters the system on a collision course with Telam’s sun, her war for sovereignty becomes a fight for survival.

Locked in prison, Sayuri Iekami is offered an impossible bargain: the power to punish those who wronged her in exchange for surrendering herself to vengeance.

At the same time, Trin struggles to hold together a crumbling alliance as strange distortions spread through space, memory, and time.

As Telam descends into chaos, three women must choose between wrath, duty, and mercy—before a dying world takes that choice from them.