A trail of dead left on Luna. A supercharged alien swarm. An Earth government on the eve of total collapse.
Felix Valda has fought on every world between Titan and the Moon. Now the Directorate is dragging him to the one place he's never been—Earth. The homeworld that collared him, poisoned him, and sold him needs him on the front line. The collar still blinks. The gratitude doesn't exist.
The Hanbiri are different now. Faster. Reproducing at rates that shouldn't be possible. On every other world, the aliens starved. Earth is a buffet. The jungle is thick with them, swarming through ancient ruins sitting on top of something massive for thirteen thousand years. The squad kills the Ancient underneath. It comes back.
It shouldn't come back. The others stayed dead. This one reforms and starts moving. South. Toward the ocean. Toward something it needs that Felix doesn't understand yet.
The squad chases it across a dying planet. Through a megacity where millions sit in VR pods while robots feed them, too atrophied to walk to shelters when the swarm hits. Through the hollowed-out halls of a government issuing orders to units that no longer exist. Across Antarctic ice where the Ancient reforms again and the last military escort asks Felix to take command because there's nobody left who knows how.
One of Felix's own is breaking. The synthetic skin that was supposed to make him whole is making him something else—something cruel, something that sees the people they're defending as biological waste. The collar remote is in Felix's hand because the Directorate ran out of officers to hold it. They were right to give it to him. That's the part he can't live with. And the one person keeping Felix human is standing in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Some prices cost more than blood. The choice Felix is forced to make costs what little is left of his soul.
Gritty military sci-fi where the aliens won't stay dead and the civilization worth saving forgot how to stand. Dominion Zero is where the cost of survival comes for everything he has left.
Book 7 of 9 in the Conscript Zero series. The fight continues on Kindle Unlimited.
Genre: Science Fiction
Felix Valda has fought on every world between Titan and the Moon. Now the Directorate is dragging him to the one place he's never been—Earth. The homeworld that collared him, poisoned him, and sold him needs him on the front line. The collar still blinks. The gratitude doesn't exist.
The Hanbiri are different now. Faster. Reproducing at rates that shouldn't be possible. On every other world, the aliens starved. Earth is a buffet. The jungle is thick with them, swarming through ancient ruins sitting on top of something massive for thirteen thousand years. The squad kills the Ancient underneath. It comes back.
It shouldn't come back. The others stayed dead. This one reforms and starts moving. South. Toward the ocean. Toward something it needs that Felix doesn't understand yet.
The squad chases it across a dying planet. Through a megacity where millions sit in VR pods while robots feed them, too atrophied to walk to shelters when the swarm hits. Through the hollowed-out halls of a government issuing orders to units that no longer exist. Across Antarctic ice where the Ancient reforms again and the last military escort asks Felix to take command because there's nobody left who knows how.
One of Felix's own is breaking. The synthetic skin that was supposed to make him whole is making him something else—something cruel, something that sees the people they're defending as biological waste. The collar remote is in Felix's hand because the Directorate ran out of officers to hold it. They were right to give it to him. That's the part he can't live with. And the one person keeping Felix human is standing in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Some prices cost more than blood. The choice Felix is forced to make costs what little is left of his soul.
Gritty military sci-fi where the aliens won't stay dead and the civilization worth saving forgot how to stand. Dominion Zero is where the cost of survival comes for everything he has left.
Book 7 of 9 in the Conscript Zero series. The fight continues on Kindle Unlimited.
Genre: Science Fiction
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