Donovan's Gambit - Paperback

Three hundred years ago, the Harvest began with a single mistake.

Zara remembers the truth.

To the galaxy, she is an ancient guardian, a silent witness left behind by a vanished civilization to watch over the younger races. For centuries, she has obeyed her oldest rule: observe, record, and never interfere.

Then the Afltic return.

A relentless hive-mind species that does not conquer, negotiate, or show mercy, the Afltic exist for one purpose: to consume. Worlds vanish. Fleets fail. Civilizations discover too late that their greatest weapons only feed the swarm.

To save a species that does not yet understand the danger, Zara turns to an unlikely ally: Colonel Drake Donovan, a retired soldier who has already paid the price of war and only wants to be left in peace.

But peace was always the illusion.

As humanity is dragged into a conflict older and darker than anyone imagined, Donovan must make an impossible choice: protect Earth by staying hidden, or risk everything to unite a fractured galaxy against an enemy that feeds on life itself.

Donovan's Gambit is the first book in The Donovan Ascendancy, an epic first-contact science fiction thriller about ancient secrets, alien invasion, sacrifice, and the terrible cost of survival.