Escape from Conatus (The Incepti Cataclysm, #1)

Decades of interstellar history are a lie.

One assassin will risk everything to prove it.

Anara has never questioned an order. As a covert operative for the Democracy, she eliminates threats to the interstellar state. Cleanly, quietly, without hesitation. Her latest mission should be no different: encounter a man on his morning walk, poison him, jog away.

But her target is a middle-aged college professor. An Incepti, like her—one of a scattered people whose homeworld was destroyed in the Catac...