He destroys worlds for a living. But some secrets refuse to stay buried.
Captain Matthew ‘Vance’ River pilots the Nightingale, a legendary worldbreaker-class ship capable of erasing entire planets. He has carried out that duty more times than he cares to remember, paying a debt no one else knows exists.
Years ago, Vance committed the unthinkable: he hacked an Anima, one of the most powerful warships ever created. The consequences cost him almost everything. Since then, he has kept his distance from people, politics, and the past, sharing his solitary existence with Asora, the artificial intelligence aboard the Nightingale.
Then a chain of events draws him toward Veruris Secunda, an isolated colony at the far edge of settled space. An Aquilas fleet has vanished there. Ships drift abandoned in the dark. And on the surface, Vance meets Nika Valuria, an Ascend pilgrim searching for answers of her own.
What they uncover rewrites everything humanity believed about its place among the stars.
Because Veruris Secunda is not simply a lost colony.
And Decima Azura, an Anima that disappeared centuries ago, may not be lost at all.
Caught between rival empires, ancient secrets, and a threat no one yet understands, Vance must confront the mistake that shaped his life.
This time, the fate of more than one world may depend on what he chooses to do.
ANIMA: Lost Colony is the first book in the ANIMA series, beginning an epic space-opera journey through lost worlds, rival empires, and secrets buried in humanity’s past.
Genre: Science Fiction
Captain Matthew ‘Vance’ River pilots the Nightingale, a legendary worldbreaker-class ship capable of erasing entire planets. He has carried out that duty more times than he cares to remember, paying a debt no one else knows exists.
Years ago, Vance committed the unthinkable: he hacked an Anima, one of the most powerful warships ever created. The consequences cost him almost everything. Since then, he has kept his distance from people, politics, and the past, sharing his solitary existence with Asora, the artificial intelligence aboard the Nightingale.
Then a chain of events draws him toward Veruris Secunda, an isolated colony at the far edge of settled space. An Aquilas fleet has vanished there. Ships drift abandoned in the dark. And on the surface, Vance meets Nika Valuria, an Ascend pilgrim searching for answers of her own.
What they uncover rewrites everything humanity believed about its place among the stars.
Because Veruris Secunda is not simply a lost colony.
And Decima Azura, an Anima that disappeared centuries ago, may not be lost at all.
Caught between rival empires, ancient secrets, and a threat no one yet understands, Vance must confront the mistake that shaped his life.
This time, the fate of more than one world may depend on what he chooses to do.
ANIMA: Lost Colony is the first book in the ANIMA series, beginning an epic space-opera journey through lost worlds, rival empires, and secrets buried in humanity’s past.
Genre: Science Fiction
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