Deep Darkness

The sky beyond Neptune's orbit has gone dark. Colonel Tomás Rexhaut is an attack cruiser commander assigned to Triton Station who is ordered to find out why. Rexhaut's wife and only love has been murdered in a cowardly terrorist act on Enceladus, and while dealing with his grief, suddenly finds himself on a first contact mission where he meets Jeel, who will give him deeply unsettling news.