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Crescent is a crowhopper - a genetically modified mercenary programmed for ruthless warfare. When she’s taken prisoner by Crater Trueblood instead of being killed in battle, she thinks it’s a disaster. Crater is weary of war. He’s a miner, not a soldier. He’d rather be mining Helium-3 than battling the infernal crowhoppers. But after he captures Crescent and brings her to Moontown, he’s surprised how much he enjoys her company. When she’s falsely accused of murder, he becomes an outlaw to help her escape.

Medieval prophet Gulatu Koza often looks to the heavens and imagines his eternal reward. But when his day of reckoning arrives, he wakes up to an Earth 800 years in the future. Above him, he’s shocked to see familiar stars sharing the sky with strange ships in flight. No sooner than he makes his peace with the curious new world and the alien colonists living alongside humans, a hostile fleet arrives with a bloody purpose. With Earth under attack, Gulatu struggles to help defend against an enemy light-years ahead of anything he’s ever experienced.

Gulatu Koza has come to realize he is neither the prophet humans of Doonya expected nor the messiah for whom the Zrivisi were praying. As he grapples with an existential crisis, the Pithrean, ancient enemies of organic lifeforms, return to the galaxy. Ships sent to the Heronza sector to discover what the Pithrean are up to never return, fueling anxiety and fear among all species.