She spent twenty years defending an empire built on a genocide she didn't know existed. Now she has to choose: save billions — or tell the truth.
Admiral Kael Oren, commander of the Dominion's last effective fleet, captures an enemy intelligence officer who tells her the truth: the galactic empire she has spent her life defending was founded on the systematic genocide of an alien civilization, and the rebels trying to destroy it have known this all along. With the Fracture advancing on the capital and her mentor commanding the enemy fleet, Kael must decide what her twenty years of service have actually been in service of. The math of collapse is catastrophic: the Dominion's fall will kill hundreds of millions of civilians who never voted for the atrocity they're inheriting. The math of survival is worse — continuing to fight means becoming the defender of a 200-year-old mass murder. Neither side is wrong. Neither choice is available. This is a merciless space opera about the weight of institutional loyalty, the cost of getting it right, and what remains of a soldier when the thing she was built to serve turns out to be the thing that needed to end.
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