The Vigil (The Anvil Series Book 3)

For forty thousand years, the Harbinger moved in one direction.Then a weapon fired. A message landed. And for four seconds, the most dangerous thing in the galaxy paused.Now it is coming here. Nineteen months away. And it is not coming to destroy.Fleet Admiral Aric Kade is permanently integrated with his ship — her sensors his perception, her damage his pain. He commands a growing coalition of eleven species and a fleet built for a war that may not be the right answer. Because the intelligence buried inside the Harbinger — ancient, imprisoned, cycling for forty millennia without instruction — did not change course because of the weapon.It changed course because of the message.The Forgeborn knew what was inside the machine. They spent their final years not trying to stop it but trying to reach it. They built a gate. They built a weapon to deliver one transmission: *we see you. The gate exists. Someone will be waiting.*Aric's job is not to win a battle. It is to stand at the gate and be worth arriving at — to prove that what the Forgeborn hoped would survive, did.The vigil has lasted forty thousand years. It ends in nineteen months.The Vigil is Book Three of the Forgeborn Ascendancy series. Read more