by Nate Kenyon
First published 2011
Nova Terra ranks among the Dominion's deadliest ghost operatives. These elite soldiers combine peak physical conditioning with amplified psionic abilities, using telepathy and superhuman powers to eliminate threats. But now the hunters face their own predator. Ghost agents vanish without explanation across the Koprulu sector. Emperor Arcturus Mengsk assigns Nova a classified mission to locate her missing teammates. Her investigation drags her through shadowy networks and buried secrets. Disturbing memories from her life before ghost training begin surfacing. Nova discovers links between the disappearances and her own forgotten past. She must confront both the demons of her youth and a new enemy: psionic spectres with terrifying capabilities. The hunt forces Nova to question everything she believed about her origins and loyalties.
Genres: science-fiction, adventure, thriller, action
Vibes: dark, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: chosen-one, enemies-to-lovers, secret-past
Setting: Koprulu Sector
Period: Future
432 pages · Kindle Edition · Pocket Books
Content warnings: violence