Enemy Territory. Secrets of the Empire, #1

Vespasian Shiraan, son of the Empress Katarina, infiltrates a space station on the furthest edges of the Aura Empire. When he and his small squad place explosives, an ancient robot awakens and the mad scientist Caspian Acratani ambushes them. Forced to flee in the face of Duke Acratani's overwhelming strength in weapons and numbers, Vespasian and the Shadow Daggers journey through several wormholes to their besieged home.
Obstacles block their path, including Father Sasha, the leader of the Follower cult, and the god he summons to rebuild the world. Sasha picks Vespasian's squadmate Rochelle Sarakshi and Caspian's psychic Mistrala Ethrus to bear witness to his first strike in a long war. The only hope for survival may lay in the revival of a man long forgotten, and a traitor to everyone. Enemy Territory tells the story of a prince's struggle with the secrets behind an empire.
Cinematic and apocalyptic, it is the first book of a seven book series. It should stand alone as a complete novel in itself.