A captain in the Vald Military Space Force, Dara has never disobeyed an order. Until now.

Convinced the peace talks are a trap disguised as diplomacy, she risks everything to expose the betrayal. But when her mission backfires, she’s forced into an uneasy alliance with Tarin—a Dratos soldier she was raised to hate.

Now, Dara and Tarin are running out of time. Stranded on a hostile planet, they’re hunted by something far deadlier than anything in the war, and it belongs to neither side.

As enemy lines begin to blur, Dara must decide what matters more: loyalty to her people, or trusting the one man she was trained to destroy.