The 7 Galaxies

THE 7 GALAXIES
BOOK 1: THE END OF UNITY

SOME DOORS ARE LOCKED FOR A REASON.

For three thousand years, the peace of the Seven Galaxies has been absolute, maintained by a single, crushing reality: the Tyranny of Distance. Separated by the freezing voids of the Abyssal Gulfs, the six Satellite Galaxies are bound to the Prime Galaxy by necessity, dependent on its fuel, its ships, and its permission to survive.

Samuel, a labor negotiator from the industrial dust of Galaxy Three, spent his life fighting for scraps at the bottom of the pyramid. When he is unexpectedly elevated to the highest office in the universe-Grand Councilor-he believes he has finally been given a chance to fix the system from the inside.

But the view from the Spire of Aion Prime reveals a terrifying truth.

Buried in the archives of a frozen world and hidden beneath the ash of the quarantined "Dark Planet" Aethelred, lies a secret that contradicts the laws of physics and the history of the Court. It is a discovery that renders the Prime's power obsolete-a key to a cage that billions don't even know they are in.

Now, isolated in a capital built on lies, Samuel finds himself hunted by the very security forces sworn to protect him. To survive, he must trust a shadow coalition of archivists, outcasts, and smugglers. Together, they must race against the Grand Guardian's fleet to reach the Dark Planet and unearth a technology that the Keepers have kept hidden for five hundred years.

The distance between stars is vast. The distance between the truth and the lie is lethal.

If Samuel unlocks the door, the universe will never be the same. But first, he has to survive the key.