<p>Beneath a forgotten moon a prison older than history begins to break.</p><p>A lone Tromian engineer is the first to hear the heartbeat in the dark - and the first to die for it.</p><p>Across the galaxy a desperate Feydra merchant steals a relic he doesn't understand. A Nyssari thief takes it from him and feels its hunger whisper in her mind. And a war-scarred Slytherix knows that what stirs has devoured worlds before.</p><p>As the Stellar Alliance scrambles to understand the impossible ancient Korithal networks ignite after millennia of silence. The signal spreads. The sleepers awaken.</p><p>And the swarm is coming.</p><p><em>The Coming Swarm</em> launches the <strong>Starborn Beasts</strong> universe with a sweeping story of alien civilizations buried sins and the terrible cost of awakening what was never meant to live again.</p>