Commander Jonathan Radec is dead. However, the commander has already
died once before, and for some death is but a doorway....
"For whoever has lived unjustly and impiously goes to the dungeon of
requital and penance which, you know, they call Tartarus."--Plato
After making a shocking discovery that reveals the truth about a
long-held misconception, the crew launch a desperate rescue mission to
Tartarus. The only way to reach there, aboard the Sunfire, which was
once the Confederation Navy's newest, most powerful heavy cruiser, but
is now nothing more than a ghost ship, adrift amongst the stars.
Meanwhile, the last Imperial Princess, Sofia Aurelius, is questioning
her own decision to focus on the Senate and turn her back on her
family--and Jon. Embarking on a quest to discover the truth about the
present--she instead finds the past has finally caught up with her.
Failure will mean certainly death for them both, but the price of
success could be far worse, almost certainly plunging the galaxy into
civil war, the last of which, 500 years ago, cost tens of millions of
lives.
