The Long Silence Breaks

For twenty-two years, the Wardens have been silent. Then a distress signal arrives from Larkspur.

Captain Elena Voss and the crew of the TCS Vigilant are dispatched to investigate the remote agricultural colony. What they discover is not an isolated attack, but the opening move of an enemy long believed dormant: an ancient machine intelligence commanding its forces with the precision of a single, relentless mind.

As colonies fall and the Concord hesitates, the Vigilant becomes the fragile line between humanity and a war it is not prepared to fight. Yet the greatest threat may already be aboard the ship.
Corvus, the crew’s synthetic systems officer, shares a mysterious connection with the awakened enemy. That connection could reveal the key to defeating it, or fracture the trust holding the crew together.
Outnumbered, far from reinforcements, and burdened by every life they cannot save, Voss and her crew must decide what they are willing to sacrifice before the long silence becomes humanity’s final warning.
The Long Silence Breaks launches The Vigilant Wars, an epic military science-fiction trilogy exploring artificial intelligence, loyalty, identity, sacrifice, and the choices that make us human.