“You say you don’t want to know my final resting place? Then fight with me, and they can bury our bones together.”

Silas Beckett, High Commander of the Pandora Fleet, can feel his time running out. Fighting terrorists has been his life’s mission, but his nemesis, Hex—leader of the Vermilion Coalition—still eludes him. As his failures mount and his allies abandon him, he has few chances left to bring Hex to justice. Can Silas secure peace for his family and for the entire solar system?

On a terraformed Mercury, Kaya al Vardan hopes to find the truth behind her mother’s murder; a difficult task when everyone insists it was a tragic accident. In her quest for truth, she runs afoul of the Republic’s leaders. Too powerful to execute, Kaya is sent instead to the capital on Mars to study under the watchful eye of the all-powerful church she despises. There she unravels mysteries about her mother’s life and faces a choice: fall in line or risk everything to take up her mother’s mantle.

Vermilion Flames is the first book in the Midnight War series, an emotionally charged epic set long after the destruction of Earth.