Decimation Protocol (The Warmaster Series, #2)

"Sedition doesn't follow the rules; mutiny doesn't log flight paths."

One ship returns to the Fleet, its crew absent and presumed dead. Within the ghost ship lies a riddle with no discernible answer: a naked synthetic, a corrupted ship computer, and an alien artifact.

A politician wants it buried, but not everyone in the Admiralty agrees. The chain of command is linear—except the Warmasters—and one of them just made a decision.

Vara will tear the galaxy apart to find her sister, Andrea, and...