Kaine's Retribution (Shattered Empire, #2)

An empire has fallen...

Civilization tears itself apart...

But there is a way to restore it all...

Ten years ago, the Malliac invasion was averted, but at the cost of humanity's interstellar transit network. Trapped at the edge of human occupied space, Hayden Kaine languishes in guilt and regret over his role in dooming a thousand worlds to permanent isolation.

Then, after being lost for a decade, his old ship and crew mysteriously reappear, bringing with them an alien technology. Kaine seizes ...