Humanity knows nothing of peace. We thought space was empty. We thought we were alone. But we couldn’t have been more wrong. We became a pawn, squashed between two massive alien empires: the Federation, and the Free. To survive, all must pick a side. Every system. Every planet. Every man.

In a war with no clear good or evil, James ‘Red’ Maddox is forced to chart his own path. And wearing a five ton mech suit, he’ll find, makes that a whole lot easier…

Anna Sadler's murder sent a message.

To who, Michael 'Ward' Miller isn't exactly sure. Whoever killed his partner was a pro. She was shot at an impossible distance, by a weapon that isn't supposed to exist. But Sadler wasn't just his partner, she was the best person he knew. Now she's dead, and Ward won't rest until he finds out who was responsible.

He was supposed to be out of the espionage business. Now Ward has seven days to uncover the conspiracy that killed his partner.

Or let the entire system go up in flames...

A near-future Earth lies in ruins. A new World War made allies out of bitter enemies, turned friends into hated foes, and ended in fire. But now we rebuild. A new order rises, a government composed of the victors and the vanquished alike. We survive.

But the wounds of war are not so easy to overcome. Man’s greed knows no bounds, and will risk even this fragile peace. And something is skulking on a base at the edges of the system. Just rumors, at first. A meteor strike. A rebellion. Then silence…

An alien intelligence lurks in the darkness. Floating through space, it might never have been found. We might have been saved from a violence we could barely contemplate. But it was discovered. It was studied. And it was awoken.

Now humanity itself is on the brink. Our species has colonized the galaxy with system after system falling under our control. But we grew complacent, divided and weak. Now our ships burn, our cities are razed to dust. But we will fight. And we will never surrender!