Jax Ascent

He lost everyone who ever loved him. Then he became the man an old colonel would trust with the secret that could win the war.

First Lieutenant Jackson Grayson reports to the deadliest posting in the galaxy with nothing left to lose. His mentor is dead. His mother's research is ashes. The only family he has ever known is gone. All that remains is the war, the enemy that has hunted him since childhood, and a talent for violence that frightens the veterans around him.

At Forward Operating Base Aegis, deep in contested space, Jax joins an elite reconnaissance unit hunting the Scourge in their own territory. He learns to bury grief in discipline, to trade his lone-wolf instincts for a team that depends on him, and to follow the whisper of intelligence that points toward a secret Scourge facility in the very system where he was once left for dead. A facility that might, against all odds, hold the mother he was told was gone.

But Jax's rise is only half the story.

The same blood that makes him a target also makes him the key to something buried under a mountain on a storm-locked ocean world. Jax finally learns why the enemy has spent thirty years trying to erase him. In a chamber older than human history, an ancient device pours the complete knowledge of a lost civilization directly into his augmented arm: The Artifact Archive.

Now Jax carries humanity's greatest secret out of the mountains and across a hostile sea, one man against an enemy embedded in his own chain of command. If he succeeds, the war changes. If he fails, the knowledge dies with him.

JAX: ASCENT is the second book of THE ARTIFACT ARCHIVE, a sweeping military science-fiction saga of loyalty, sacrifice, and the long war against an ancient darkness. It is the story of how a hunted orphan became a commander, a courier, and finally a man with something to lose again.

He spent thirty years alone. Completing his father's mission gave him back everything he never knew he'd lost.