Author: Gabriel Miller
Humanity has broken free of Earth’s cradle and scattered across the stars, binding new worlds into the fragile order of the Human Sphere. Rich colonies were claimed and wary truces forged with alien powers. Suspicion lingers in every treaty, silence in every handshake, and conflict still smolders in the space between: not the grand clash of armies or fleets, but something quieter, sharper. It is a war fought in corridors of shadow by fireteams trained to strike, vanish, and leave only ghosts behind.
From the ashes of the Uprising, Greater Independent Japan clawed back its freedom in blood. The StateEmpire of Yu Jing has not forgotten, and it will never forgive. Amidst the storm walks Takeshi “Neko” Oyama: a man whispered of in half-myth, a hero who refuses to die. Uneasy with his growing legend, Takeshi throws himself into a mission few would dare: infiltrate Kuraimori, once the beating heart of Japan, now smothered beneath Yu Jing’s iron grip.
Mizu Hayata’s yakuza ties kept her crew alive in the ruin the Uprising left behind. She is called once more to ride into the fight she never really escaped. She joins Takeshi alongside Bianca Chen, the war correspondent whose words lit the match of revolution—and branded her an enemy to an empire. The mysterious Hassassin Yasbir pulls at unseen strings, weaving the threads that bring them all to a truth long buried, and fulfills his own agenda.
The island of Kuraimori has been rebuilt into a vision of modern prosperity, though its Japanese inhabitants still bear the scars of war. Hidden in its depths are secrets powerful enough to fracture Japan’s fragile place among the powers of the Sphere—secrets its enemies are more than willing to kill for.
The book is in paperback and is 336 pages.
Scheduled for release late September 2025.
Author: Gabriel Miller
Humanity has broken free of Earth’s cradle and scattered across the stars, binding new worlds into the fragile order of the Human Sphere. Rich colonies were claimed and wary truces forged with alien powers. Suspicion lingers in every treaty, silence in every handshake, and conflict still smolders in the space between: not the grand clash of armies or fleets, but something quieter, sharper. It is a war fought in corridors of shadow by fireteams trained to strike, vanish, and leave only ghosts behind.
From the ashes of the Uprising, Greater Independent Japan clawed back its freedom in blood. The StateEmpire of Yu Jing has not forgotten, and it will never forgive. Amidst the storm walks Takeshi “Neko” Oyama: a man whispered of in half-myth, a hero who refuses to die. Uneasy with his growing legend, Takeshi throws himself into a mission few would dare: infiltrate Kuraimori, once the beating heart of Japan, now smothered beneath Yu Jing’s iron grip.
Mizu Hayata’s yakuza ties kept her crew alive in the ruin the Uprising left behind. She is called once more to ride into the fight she never really escaped. She joins Takeshi alongside Bianca Chen, the war correspondent whose words lit the match of revolution—and branded her an enemy to an empire. The mysterious Hassassin Yasbir pulls at unseen strings, weaving the threads that bring them all to a truth long buried, and fulfills his own agenda.
The island of Kuraimori has been rebuilt into a vision of modern prosperity, though its Japanese inhabitants still bear the scars of war. Hidden in its depths are secrets powerful enough to fracture Japan’s fragile place among the powers of the Sphere—secrets its enemies are more than willing to kill for.
The book is in paperback and is 336 pages.
Scheduled for release late September 2025.
