Burning Stars

The colony survived twenty-four years in space. They survived resource shortages, riots, and the slow death of their stolen ship. They reached Kepler-442b with 203,000 people alive.Then the Harvesters came.Alien machines that have destroyed three thousand civilizations. Weapons that turn forests to ash and tunnels to tombs. An enemy that doesn't negotiate, doesn't stop, and doesn't care about humanity's desperate fight for survival.Amara wasn't supposed to be a war leader. She was an engineer who watched David Chen die because she ordered him into the wrong place at the wrong time. Now she's the Council Chair making impossible choices: Use resources for weapons or food? Rescue trapped survivors or defend the living? How many people can you sacrifice to save everyone else?Kai manages logistics for an army that's already lost. Rae performs surgery in collapsed tunnels while the rescue clock ticks down. Marcus trains civilians to fight an enemy that destroyed empires. And Vera Kane—ninety-eight years old and dying—watches the war from her medical bed, knowing she helped save humanity only to see it burn.Forty-seven thousand eight hundred ninety-two dead.Each one has a name. Each one has a family. Each one died defending a world they'd only just reached.Now the survivors must rebuild from ashes. Create democracy from dictatorship. Build agriculture on a battlefield. Make something worth saving from the ruins of war.And pray the Harvesters don't come back.Burning Stars is the explosive conclusion to The Salvation Chronicles—a military science fiction epic about the price of victory, the mathematics of survival, and the people who pay in blood so humanity can have one more chance.Perfect for fans of The Expanse, Old Man's War, and Leviathan Wakes.