Stars Between Us
J D Rivan
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Add to basketSold by PBShop.store US, Wood Dale, IL, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller since 7 April 2005
Condition: New
Quantity: Over 20 available
Add to basketNew Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.
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For one hundred years, the Celestian Empire and the United Outer Systems Command have bled the stars dry. Children are born into battle. Pilots die before they grow old. And the void between the stars is thick with the wreckage of civilizations that once dared to dream of peace.
Sienna Langley — call sign: Oracle — is the Empire’s most gifted psychic conduit. Since childhood, she has felt the minds of thousands pressing against her own, a living chorus of fear and loyalty that she alone must hold together. Revered as chosen. Burdened by destiny. She guides fleets with a thought, feels the weight of every death as if it were her own, and wears her certainty like armor over a mind that is slowly fracturing from within.
Vonin Kepler — call sign: Viper — earned his place at the head of Reaper Flight not through bloodlines, but through sheer brilliance and the audacity to break every rule that stands between his squad and survival. The Outer Systems don’t believe in fate. They believe in the cold logic of merit, improvisation, and the thin margin that separates genius from disaster. Kepler keeps a list of names in his flight log — every pilot he has lost. He never lets himself forget.
When Enemies Share a Secret Older Than the War ItselfBoth fleets are converging on a forgotten sector — a graveyard of shattered worlds where ancient ruins predate the Empire itself. Neither side can explain the strange energy readings. Neither side can account for the scouts who enter and never return the same. High Command calls it an asset to be seized. Oracle calls it a vision she can’t escape. Viper calls it just another mission. None of them understand what is truly waiting in the dark.
When Oracle and Viper are finally forced together by circumstance, by survival, and by a power older than either of their civilizations, they must confront the greatest question a century of war has never allowed either side to ask: What if the enemy is not who you were told they were?
The War That Forged Them. The Choice That Will Define Them.Stars Between Us is an epic military science fiction saga that burns with the fury of space combat and aches with the quiet cost of war. J.D. Rivan builds two richly imagined civilizations — the Empire’s crystalline halls humming with psychic resonance, and the Outer Systems’ battered, jury-rigged carriers smelling of recycled coffee and engine grease — and then tears them apart at exactly the moment they are needed most.
At its heart, this is a story about what we inherit from the wars we are born into — and what we must choose to become when history offers us a way out. It is about two people on opposite sides of everything, discovering that the only force stronger than destiny is the decision, made in the dark, to defy it.
Their names become legend. Their story becomes hope. Viper. Oracle. Two call signs whispered across both fleets long after the final battle, carved into hull plates by soldiers who will never know what truly happened in the ruins — but who believe, in the quiet between the stars, that love and defiance can outlast war.
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