In a desperate attempt to save his race, the Ildiran Mage-Imperator, Jora'h, is forced into a devil's bargain with the evil hydrogues. Meanwhile, the gypsy Roamer clans and the green priests of the worldforest are discovering innovative ways to rebel. Forces collide in a fury that will destroy many and devastate the landscape of the Spiral Arm.

One of the today's most successful science fiction writers, Kevin J. Anderson is the author of many popular Star Wars and X-Files novels, as well as his bestselling Dune prequels, coauthored with Brian Herbert. Now Anderson returns with a stunning new chapter in the Saga of Seven Suns, his boldly imagined epic of interstellar intrigue and adventure... The war between the alien hydrogues and the faeros rages, reducing suns to blackened shells-including one of the fabled seven suns of the Ildiran Empire. Instead of protecting themselves, the Ildirans engage in bloody civil war and the many...