"Seventy-five years from today, the human race has been cast from a dying Earth to wander the stars in a vast fleet of arks...When her sister disappears while responding to a mysterious alien distress call, Eryn insists on being part of the crew sent to look for her...What she discovers on Candidate-623 is both terrifying and deadly. When the threat follows her back to the fleet and people start dying, she is tasked with seeking out a legendary recluse...

"From award-winning author Gareth L. Powell, the second book in the critically acclaimed Embers of War space opera series. The former warship Trouble Dog and her crew of misfits is called upon by the House of Reclamation to investigate a distress call from the human starship the Lucy's Ghost. Her crew abandon their crippled ship and seek refuge abroad an abandoned, slower-than-light generation ship launched ten thousand years before by an alien race....