The Pentad: Dawn of Mankind Book 4

The Severed don't ask questions. They take them.

A Fleet ship goes dark on the frontier. Her crew wakes in a place where the walls move and time doesn't. Nobody interrogates them. Nobody speaks at all. Something simply reaches into their memories and helps itself. And every stolen memory points to one ship. One man.

Cassian Reeve is running out of cover.

The admiral who protected him is in a hospital bed. The one who replaced her would rather bury his questions than answer them. So when Fleet sends the Meridian back to where it all began, the asteroid field where a single drill woke the galaxy, Reeve knows it isn't a mission. It's a leash.

He isn't the only one wearing one. On the far side of the line, an old adversary has just received new orders. Orders with no limits. What he chooses to do with them will decide far more than this war.

The Severed are done watching. They're searching for something now. And they'll tear humanity apart, deck by deck, to find it.