Second Earth

A Beta Sector Novel

De: Stephen A Fender

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

“It was the beginning… of the end.”

Second Earth—the site of the worst massacre of the Great Galactic War five years ago—loomed before the supercarrier Rhea like a haunting jewel suspended in the endless void. A beautiful gemstone against the stars, it seemed to beckon the Sector Command vessel and her crew home, like a parent calling to a long-lost child.

But all was not as it seemed. What was expected to be a barren, war-ravaged world was, in truth, vibrant and alive—its surface showing far less devastation than the Office of Special Intelligence or the Unified Council had ever reported. Stranger still, the network of orbital defense satellites once stationed to guard the planet’s secrets had vanished without a trace.

Ordered to deploy a contingent of Unified Marines to the surface, Lieutenant Commander Shawn Kestrel is about to uncover a truth the Unified Government fought to bury. But it may already be too late. When a mysterious and immensely powerful alien vessel appears in orbit above Second Earth, it heralds the one nightmare Shawn and intelligence officer Melissa Graves hoped they’d never face again—war