Kylara Vatta has one final opportunity to muster the forces to destroy forever her enemy's power and to restore her family's name.

"Filled with fast-paced action and well-conceived characters.”—Booklist
Kylara Vatta is the only daughter in a family full of sons, and her father’s only child to buck tradition by choosing a military career instead of joining the family business. For Ky, it’s no contest: Even running the prestigious Vatta Transport Ltd. shipping concern can’t hold a candle to shipping out as an officer aboard an interstellar...

"After nearly a decade away, Nebula Award-winning author Elizabeth Moon makes a triumphant return to science fiction with a thrilling new series featuring the daring hero of her acclaimed Vatta's War sequence. Summoned to the home planet of her family's business empire, space-fleet commander Kylara Vatta is told to expect a hero's welcome. But instead, she is thrown into danger unlike any other she has faced and finds herself isolated, unable to communicate...

Once a hero: A woman officer takes command of a mutiny against a traitorous spaceship captain and leads her crew through intense combat to victory -- Rules of engagement: When Brun falls into the hands of a repressive religious militia movement, Esmay finds herself a suspect, and is denied any part in a rescue attempt.

Disgraced after being expelled from the military academy, Kylara Vatta goes home to face her family. Given one last chance to redeem herself, she is sent on a mission to take an old Vatta Transport ship to the scrap yard. However, this mundane assignment turns into the mission from hell.

Someone has launched a full-throttle offensive against Vatta Transport Ltd., Ky's father's interstellar shipping empire. Most of Ky's family is killed, and subsequent attacks sever vital lines of communication, leaving Ky fighting, in every sense, to survive.

For Ky, it's not just about liberating the star systems subjugated by Turek and defending the rest of the galaxy's freedom. There's also a score to be settled and payback to be meted out for the obliteration of the Vatta Transport dynasty, and the slaughter of Ky's family. But the enemy have their own escalation efforts under way, including the placement of covert agents among the allies with whom Ky and the surviving Vattas are collaborating in the...