A fragile armistice is collapsing. And on a mining world no one remembers, a servant girl has just picked up something she was never meant to touch.
Seventeen-year-old Nola Nislei has lived her entire life on Lithos, a brutal mining world in the no-man's-land between two rival empires. Orphaned by war. Raised in servitude. Trained, quietly, to fight. Then an escape pod falls from the sky. Inside are two bodies and a silvery medallion that seems to know her before she knows herself. Within days, an Imperial strike force is hunting her across the stars. The Empress has issued a direct order: capture the girl alive. And a shattered Nexus prescient who has not been seen in seventeen years has come to collect her first. As the Ore Belt burns, Nola is pulled into a conflict shaped by ancient bloodlines, hidden powers, and a secret she has carried her entire life without knowing it. Perfect for fans of James S.A. Corey's Leviathan Wakes and Frank Herbert's Dune, bestselling author Rick Campbell's book seven of the Nexus House series opens an all-new arc—The Realm War—and is the ideal entry point into an epic space opera where prescience is a weapon, empires keep their cruelest secrets alive, and bloodlines decide the war.
