<p>The Polovians are long gone-or so history believes.</p><p>Across the silent reaches of space the sentient starship Lucy still carries their memory: a living vessel haunted by her creators' final command-to find heirs worthy of their legacy. When Fleet Captain Bryan Landry and his crew uncover the ruins of the Polovian homeworld they awaken forces that were never meant to sleep.</p><p>What begins as a simple repair mission becomes the rebirth of an empire. The New Polovians-humans hybrids and luminous beings called the Angelicara-must reclaim a galaxy ravaged by slavers and raiders even as they struggle to define what it means to be alive to be free and to be family.</p><p>Guided by love loyalty and the strange divinity that binds man and machine Bryan and Lucy will fight to rebuild what the old empire lost-not through conquest but through compassion. Yet the universe does not easily surrender its ghosts... and some legacies demand blood before they grant redemption.</p><p>A sweeping space epic of rebirth faith and the fragile brilliance of life among the stars.</p><p> </p>