Ember Rising: The Fleet That Would Not Die

Twenty-eight years ago, Admiral Sera Maren didn't destroy humanity's last fleet at the Battle of Kepler's Reach.

She hid it.

Two hundred warships. Two hundred dead-star systems. Two hundred skeleton crews in stasis, waiting for someone with the right bloodline to find them - someone Sera couldn't warn, couldn't prepare, couldn't even tell. Because telling them would have meant trusting everything to a person who might not survive long enough to use it.

That person is her granddaughter. And she...