Jason's stolen psychic powers awaken—and so does the alien obelisk hunting him.
For fans of Red Rising, The Expanse, and other SFF epics.
Earth is losing the Solar War. A psychic Emperor is coming to finish it. And something more ancient than humanity is pulling the strings.
For Jason, survival means scavenging the ruins beneath New Toronto—a fractured city-arcology on a dying Earth, where hope is as scarce as clean air.
But when an ancient obelisk from his forgotten past attacks his mind from afar, his dormant psychic abilities spiral out of control. Now he and his companions have no choice but to hunt down the obelisk before it consumes him entirely.
The obelisk has a name: the Abaddon Beacon. Sealed within a top-secret research lab for over a century, it has quietly seeded its nanotechnologies throughout human civilization. Its gifts once saved humanity from oblivion. Now they have mutated into the Nanophage—a techno-plague tearing through every city, every fleet, and every offworld habitat.
Abaddon has set a time bomb at the heart of human society. Jason may be the only one who can stop it. But he isn't the only one hearing its call.
The psychic Emperor Hadrian Mariko is preparing to invade the Earth, and he wants Abaddon's power for himself. With most resistance crushed, Commander Zeke Oakfield and his spec-ops squadron are the last defenders standing in Mariko's way.
As invasion and contagion converge, Jason faces a final choice: master the power growing inside him—or deliver Abaddon exactly what it has waited eons to claim. All of humanity.
