Deceit

A dying galaxy. A human who shouldn’t exist. A war built on blood, magic, and lies.

Colonel Jerrel Abalias has spent a lifetime fighting a hopeless war. When his best soldier is butchered by a ruthless assassin, Abalias vows to hunt the killer down and send him back to whatever hell he crawled from, even if it means igniting a conflict that will end the Dissension Army for good.

Dezmara Strykar is too cunning for her own good. After waking from cryosleep to find her race all but extinct and her memories completely wiped, the expert pilot is desperate for a sign she's not the only human left alive. But to fund her near-hopeless search, she turns to smuggling and gains the kind of notoriety that draws dangerous attention.

Framed for a murder she didn’t commit, Dezmara becomes the target of Abalias’s relentless hunt. But the colonel doesn’t know the truth: the assassin he’s looking for and the woman he wants to hang are pieces of the same conspiracy—one that could shatter every star left burning.

Deceit is the brutal first book in The D-Evolution, a grimdark science-fantasy saga where magic clashes with machinery, honor is both a weapon and a curse...and survival demands dirty hands.