IN THE SHADOW OF A DEAD CIVILIZATION
TWO BROTHERS, young hunters on a world far from Earth. Both are dissatisfied with what the tribe has planned for their lives. Both long for adventure. Duty drives them to stay close to home, accede to their tribe's expectations. Until the humans arrive.
HIS ONLY LOVE was brutally murdered by the alien creatures below. Butchered... Eaten. His pain and anger make him see red when one of them stows away on a shuttle. His mind explodes with the need for vengeance. Murderous rage grows in his heart. Despite the creature's calm, kind demeanor, he wants to kill it with his bare hands. Is there any other choice?
YEARS AGO she knocked him unconscious in order to steal a ship. Later, on different sides of a battle in space, he abandoned his career to save her life. An act she never fully understood. He was gone before she could ask. Gone from the entire human race. She's finally caught up with him in orbit around a strange new world. Will her fantasy match his reality?
AEX ENDURANCE left Earth seven years ago. It arrived half a year ago and orbits over a green, alien world. First contact was attempted and failed. Brutally. With the loss of every envoy, further missions were called off. Now, the ADF Pang Yu arrives, a newer ship launched only a year ago, equipped with faster engines. They bring reinforcements, and a grim message. Another great war, the Second Corporate War ended with Allied Industries in control. Not everyone on board the Endurance welcomes the news.
ANCIENT SECRETS sleep beneath an alien planet's soil. A long-abandoned orbital ring looms above. And in the shadow of a dead civilization, humanity's future depends on understanding a species that once touched the stars... and chose to fall.