Skorrn

The Skorrn have returned to human space — not to fight the fleet this time, but to study it. Quietly, methodically, world by world, they're taking people and scanning for the one thing forty years of failed doctrine never let them understand: what makes the Aether choose who it chooses. And when their search finally reaches a five-year-old girl on an agricultural settlement called Calder's Reach, the war stops being something the Navy fights at a distance and becomes something an undefended civilian population has to survive on its own, for twelve hours, with whatever they can build before help arrives.

Aboard the Ebon Fang, Grohl and Spike are running out of ways to stay one step ahead of an enemy that has finally started asking the right questions — and Erin is about to find out exactly how much of this campaign she's ready to carry on her own.

Skorrn is the story of an enemy that spent forty years studying the wrong thing, a settlement that refused to be a footnote, and a family finally handing down what it took three generations, one Aetherarch, and one impossible resurrection to build.