Shroud Ascension. Fallen Galaxy Saga, #3

Riven Voss won the war. He was fighting the wrong enemy. The Ascendancy is broken. The rebellion is spent. And the truth has finally surfaced - the galaxy was never a battlefield. It was a cage. Now the cage is failing. From the rupture at the edge of space, something ancient is pushing through. It corrupts ships. Consumes minds. Turns entire stars dark. It was never meant to exist. Never meant to escape.
It's already inside. This is the Shroud. And it cannot be defeated. Only contained. To stop it, Riven must forge an alliance with his greatest enemy, trust the beings who imprisoned humanity, and decide which parts of the galaxy can still be saved. Because the Architects have returned - not as saviors, but as desperate survivors carrying a secret that changes everything. And the Listeners, the cold architects of the cage, have a plan of their own.
One that doesn't require humanity to survive. Riven has faced impossible choices before. This one is different. This time, winning means losing something he can never get back. For fans of The Expanse, Mass Effect, and Battlestar Galactica - epic fleet warfare, ancient cosmic threats, and leaders forced to make choices no one should have to make.