Starborn

They are not from Earth—yet they rule it from the shadows. When Aldric Vale, a lone freelancer for the Interstellar Concord, follows a mysterious signal to an obscure star system, he expects to find a dead outpost—not a thriving world of eight billion people. The inhabitants call it Earth. By rights, the planet should have rejoined the Concord centuries ago. Instead, its existence was buried by a cabal of immortal elites who use Earth as their private paradise, while its people remain oblivious. After a deadly encounter cripples his ship, Aldric is stranded. Trapped on a world that isn't supposed to exist, he must infiltrate the cabal to escape—and expose the truth. Then he meets Lena Hart, a fearless journalist chasing clues she never should have found. Protecting her forces Aldric to make an impossible choice: free an entire world of unwitting slaves… or save the one woman who has made this forbidden planet feel like home.