Epic sci-fi action meets ancient conspiracy—for fans of Dune and The Expanse. A servant girl. A fallen empire. A secret worth starting a war over.

A fragile armistice is collapsing. And on a mining world no one remembers, a servant girl has just picked up something she was never meant to touch.

Seventeen-year-old Nola Nislei has lived her entire life on Lithos, a brutal mining world in the no-man's-land between two rival empires. Orphaned by war. Raised in servitude. Trained, quietly, to fight.

Then an escape pod falls from the sky. Inside are two bodies, and a silvery medallion that seems to know her before she knows herself.

Within days, an Imperial strike force is hunting her across the stars. The Empress has issued a direct order: capture the girl alive. And a shattered Nexus prescient who has not been seen in seventeen years has come to collect her first.

As the Ore Belt burns, Nola is pulled into a conflict shaped by ancient bloodlines, hidden powers, and a secret she has carried her entire life without knowing it.

Perfect for fans of James S.A. Corey's Leviathan Wakes and Frank Herbert's Dune, bestselling author Rick Campbell's Book 7 of the Nexus House series opens an all-new arc—The Realm War—and the ideal entry point into an epic space opera where prescience is a weapon, empires keep their cruelest secrets alive, and bloodlines decide the war.

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Praise for the Nexus House series:

“…a new far-future, military sci-fi series...”—Library Journal

“…a testament to mankind's determination to triumph against all odds.” —Chris Pourteau, bestselling author of the award-winning SynCorp Saga

“If you’re a fan of epic sci-fi, Campbell will not disappoint.” —Raquel Byrnes, author of The Memory Bank