Triumph's Ashes

<p>TRIUMPH'S ASHES is a triumph!<br>TOP FIFTY INDIE BOOKS OF 2021 (as chosen by Read Free.ly)<br><br>The Artemis War - Volume 4 gives readers a complete package drama love suspense excitement heartbreak danger blood and humor. All in one book. - Bookish Reviews</p><p><strong>Victory always has a price. Now it's time to pay. </strong></p><p>The cracks are spreading through the Union of Artemis. </p><p>Vasilia Newling's grip on power is slipping as rebellion takes root on Luna. The Terran Federation led by Kendra Cassidy and her chosen family of idealists officers and sentient AIs offers an alternative-but unity has never come easy. As old enemies falter new allies rise... and so do traitors. </p><p>On Luna Nicole Crozier and Autumn Newling fight to hold a fragile revolution together. Every gain is hard-won. Every setback threatens to reignite the violence they've tried to end. Federation support helps-but only so much especially when internal fractures threaten to undo everything.</p><p> Meanwhile Kendra isn't watching from orbit. She's flying with Daniela's Direwolves not just commanding from the front lines but leading by example. Her message to the Federation's newest pilots is clear: this war will be won not just with firepower but with courage conviction and the unbreakable bonds of loyalty. </p><p>Across the system every ship every crew every ally is drawn into the Federation's final stand. When the enemy's blow lands it strikes at the heart-Njord itself-testing not only their defenses but the strength of everything they've fought to build. </p><p>The attack is swift. Brutal. Personal. It threatens not just lives but the very ideals the Federation stands for. </p><p>As the Artemis War reaches its fiery climax everything the Cassidys and their allies have built hangs in the balance-peace progress and a future shared across worlds species and lines once thought uncrossable. </p><p>The war will end. But what rises from its ashes-and who gets to shape it-may matter even more. </p><p><strong>Blending blistering military action political intrigue queer hopepunk energy found family bonds and a refusal to back down Triumph's Ashes brings the Artemis War to a climactic deeply human conclusion.</strong></p><p> </p><p>Sometimes winning is harder than losing as our intrepid heroines are finding out in Adam Gaffen's latest installment proves. Without spoiling anything revolution is hard bloody and when you are fighting a psychopathic whackjob for your ohana... winning can feel very much like losing.</p><p>Adam does an amazing job continuing the Cassidy Chronicles with this one... there's action adventure romance and some heartbreak too... it's a definite page-turner and I couldn't put it down!</p><p> His well defined characters and compelling dialogue drove the plot forward and once I had discovered the basic gist of the story I was drawn into it with a degree of comfort and familiarity.</p>