Epic sci-fi action meets ancient conspiracy--for fans of Dune and The Expanse. A servant girl. A fallen empire. A secret worth starting a war over. A fragile armistice is collapsing. And on a mining world no one remembers, a servant girl has just picked up something she was never meant to touch. Seventeen-year-old Nola Nislei has lived her entire life on Lithos, a brutal mining world in the no-man's-land between two rival empires. Orphaned by war. Raised in servitude. Trained, quietly, to fight.
Then an escape pod falls from the sky. Inside are two bodies, and a silvery medallion that seems to know her before she knows herself.
Within days, an Imperial strike force is hunting her across the stars. The Empress has issued a direct order: capture the girl alive. And a shattered Nexus prescient who has not been seen in seventeen years has come to collect her first.
As the Ore Belt burns, Nola is pulled into a conflict shaped by ancient bloodlines, hidden powers, and a secret she has carried her entire life without knowing it.
Perfect for fans of James S.A. Corey's Leviathan Wakes and Frank Herbert's Dune, bestselling author Rick Campbell's Book 7 of the Nexus House series opens an all-new arc--The Realm War--and the ideal entry point into an epic space opera where prescience is a weapon, empires keep their cruelest secrets alive, and bloodlines decide the war. ___________________
Praise for the Nexus House series: "...a new far-future, military sci-fi series..."--Library Journal "...a testament to mankind's determination to triumph against all odds." --Chris Pourteau, bestselling author of the award-winning SynCorp Saga "If you're a fan of epic sci-fi, Campbell will not disappoint." --Raquel Byrnes, author of The Memory Bank
