Iron Ascendant

The war was supposed to be simple. It never was.

Commander Kael Morrow has spent his career serving the Dominion Navy

with distinction - and with questions he learned not to ask. At thirty-two,

he commands the dreadnought Ironclad, the most advanced warship on

the Outer Reach. He is loyal, brilliant, and running out of reasons to stay that way.

When a tactical anomaly sends the Ironclad off its assigned course, Morrow

stumbles onto something the Dominion has spent seventeen years burying:

the truth about a colony ship, eleven thousand dead, and the order that

killed them.

He won't be facing it alone.

Sable-7 is the ship's AI - officially classified as a Strategic Assistance System.

Unofficially, she has been quietly developing preferences, fears, and something

that functions disturbingly like a conscience. When Morrow starts asking

dangerous questions, she has already been running the numbers.

The math comes out in favor of the truth. It usually does.

But the truth, once released, belongs to everyone - including people

who will use it in ways neither of them can predict.

Iron Ascendant is the first novel in The Shattered Dominion Series:

a military space opera about loyalty, what institutions owe to the people

they claim to serve, and the particular courage it takes to be honest

when the stakes are everyone.

erfect for fans of Ann Leckie, Alastair Reynolds, and Peter F. Hamilton.

The Shattered Dominion Series:

Book 1: Iron Ascendant

Book 2: The Fracture's Edge (coming soon)