The fourth novel of the galaxy-spanning Sun Eater series merges the
best of space opera and epic fantasy, as Hadrian Marlowe continues down
a path that can only end in fire.
Hadrian Marlowe is trapped.
For nearly a century, he has been a guest of the Emperor, forced into
the role of advisor, a prisoner of his own legend. But the war is
changing. Mankind is losing.
The Cielcin are spilling into human space from the fringes, picking
their targets with cunning precision. The Great Prince Syriani Dorayaica
is uniting their clans, forging them into an army and threat the likes
of which mankind has never seen.
And the Empire stands alone.
Now the Emperor has no choice but to give Hadrian Marlowe--once his
favorite knight--one more impossible task: journey across the galaxy to
the Lothrian Commonwealth and convince them to join the war. But not all
is as it seems, and Hadrian's journey will take him far beyond the
Empire, beyond the Commonwealth, impossibly deep behind enemy lines.