Virel Astrax

They broke the empire to free the stars. Now, the stars are rotting from the inside out. Six months after the fall of the Sovereign Architect, the galaxy is bleeding. The tyrant is dead, but his surviving warlords have carved the frontier into brutal, warring fiefdoms. And worse, a terrifying new threat has emerged from the dark. Imperial "Ghost Fleets" are ambushing Free Systems Alliance worlds with devastating precision, dropping out of thin air to slaughter billions.
Smuggler-turned-Supreme Commander Elara Vance is forced to take control of a fractured, terrified fleet. Her only hope lies in understanding the enemy's impossible new cloaking technology-a dark, ancient artifact known as the Sunder Stone. But the stone isn't just hiding the enemy. It is actively poisoning the cosmic ocean. High Commander Thorne, the most ruthless tactician of the old empire, plans to use the artifact to permanently rot the primary pathways of the universe.
If he succeeds, interstellar travel will cease to exist, and countless worlds will starve in the dark. When a direct confrontation strips Kaelen Voss of his god-like connection to the void, the legendary Starbreaker is rendered entirely mortal. To stop Thorne, Kaelen must do the unthinkable: he must track down the scattered, terrified remnants of his ancient order and teach his daughter, Lyra, to control her terrifying, untrained power.
As the universe literally decays around them, Elara must forge a desperate alliance with the criminal underworld, while Kaelen and Lyra prepare to merge their minds in a highly dangerous biological maneuver to shatter the artifact from the inside. If they fail, the sky burns to ash. If they succeed, the cost of survival might just break them completely. The Starbreaker's War is a massive, pulse-pounding space opera packed with ruthless fleet battles, deep cosmic lore, and the unbreakable bonds of a found family fighting for the very survival of the universe