Two billion people live on the planet Dawn. Eden's fleet is close enough to save them. Eden has decided to let them die.
Three hundred alien warships are closing in. The Nighthawk stands alone. Half-repaired. Shields bolted on minutes before the first shot. Medical bay already full. Charles Carroll has no reinforcements and no orders worth obeying.
There is one way to force Eden into this war. Carroll is the only man desperate enough to try it.
A second war is already inside his ship. Something has escaped its containment cell into the Nighthawk's ventilation. It has learned to change shape. It has learned to wear the dead. It is no longer satisfied with the dead.
Far below, in a crater city, a fugitive attorney and her daughter uncover an alien structure six miles across, older than every human colony in the system. The Custodes have murdered for centuries to keep it hidden. No one knows its purpose. Two billion people are standing on it.
Dawn was not the invasion. Dawn was the rehearsal.
Battleship Nighthawk is a military space opera in the tradition of The Expanse. This full-cast epic spans the bridge of a burning warship, the halls of power, the underworld, and a secret older than the colonies themselves.
Battle of Dawn is Book Two of a three-volume story arc. It follows Book One, Shadows of War. This volume ends on a cliffhanger.
Genre: Science Fiction
Three hundred alien warships are closing in. The Nighthawk stands alone. Half-repaired. Shields bolted on minutes before the first shot. Medical bay already full. Charles Carroll has no reinforcements and no orders worth obeying.
There is one way to force Eden into this war. Carroll is the only man desperate enough to try it.
A second war is already inside his ship. Something has escaped its containment cell into the Nighthawk's ventilation. It has learned to change shape. It has learned to wear the dead. It is no longer satisfied with the dead.
Far below, in a crater city, a fugitive attorney and her daughter uncover an alien structure six miles across, older than every human colony in the system. The Custodes have murdered for centuries to keep it hidden. No one knows its purpose. Two billion people are standing on it.
Dawn was not the invasion. Dawn was the rehearsal.
Battleship Nighthawk is a military space opera in the tradition of The Expanse. This full-cast epic spans the bridge of a burning warship, the halls of power, the underworld, and a secret older than the colonies themselves.
Battle of Dawn is Book Two of a three-volume story arc. It follows Book One, Shadows of War. This volume ends on a cliffhanger.
Genre: Science Fiction