Ashes Of The Jen

<p>In an age of fragile peace the galaxy has forgotten why the Jen were feared.</p><p>The Union of Worlds governs with order and doctrine upheld by the Kai'ji-an ascendant force of disciplined warriors who believe power must be shared regulated and controlled. To them the Jen are dangerous relics: emotional secretive and irredeemably fallen. Most believe the Jen were wiped out centuries ago.</p><p>They were wrong.</p><p>Zira has lived her life in the shadow of half-truths trained by a master who carries the weight of a forgotten war. When she is drawn to the ruins of an ancient Jen city buried on a dying world her awakening begins-not as a gift but as a trial. The temple tests her body her will and her very sense of self revealing powers that blur the line between strength and surrender instinct and control.</p><p>As Zira uncovers relics weapons and truths long buried the Kai'ji close in convinced they are hunting monsters before history can repeat itself. What they find instead is a legacy that refuses to die.</p><p>When past and present collide master faces master and student faces student and the galaxy is forced to confront an uncomfortable truth: the Jen were never the darkness the Kai'ji claim them to be.</p><p>They were something far more dangerous.</p><p>They were free.</p><p>A sweeping science-fantasy epic filled with ancient orders lost temples philosophical conflict and visceral combat this is the story of a young woman stepping into a legacy the galaxy tried to erase-and discovering that survival may demand becoming exactly what her enemies fear.</p>