The deadliest weapon in the galaxy isn’t a ship—it’s you. If you can think, you can win their war.
A single alien marble was all it took to change everything.
When Captain Leo Ananda and the crew of the Pegasus begin investigating the mysterious Crell infection, they expect a threat they can contain. What they find instead is far more dangerous. People aren’t just being infected. They’re being used.
Because the Crell don’t need armies. Yours will do.
As Leo races to save a lost crewman, the line between duty and chaos begins to blur. Political marriage aside, he and Commander Alice Chateau are being drawn closer than either of them is prepared for.
Alice is already closer than anyone realizes. Gifted with powerful telepathic abilities, she feels the infection at a cost she can’t afford. Each time she reaches into another mind, something pushes back. Something vast. Something hungry.
Something that might break her… and the universe.
Far from the Pegasus, Professor “Duster” James is alive, but cut off, captured, and forced into a fight he never trained for. To survive, he’ll have to use his mind in ways he never imagined.
In this war, strength isn’t measured in firepower. It’s measured in thought.
And every mind is a battlefield.
You don’t see the enemy.
You become it.
Perfect for fans of found family, slow-burn romance, psychological sci fi, and creeping cosmic horror.
