The Galactic Brand

In 2187, after humanity has completed its colonization of the solar system, a covert interstellar war that threatens the survival of the species quietly breaks out. When archaeologists discover breathing metal ruins on Saturn's sixth moon, Elena Zhou, chief technology officer of the Alliance Academy of Sciences, and Victor Komarov, a defected Ghost commander, are forced to rekindle their relationship. They must crack the ultimate code of an experiment left unfinished five years ago: the quantum etchings pulsing in Victor's spine record forbidden knowledge capable of reconstructing the laws of space and time. From a ghost station in Neptune's orbit to a luminous city beneath Venus's sulfuric clouds, this life-and-death struggle, played out across the galaxy, will finally reveal its cruelest truth in the light of a supernova in Sirius: some vows can only be kept by crossing dimensions.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.