Charlie and his allies have been trying desperately for months to find a way to prevent the Zha’-Rath swarm from their endgame, from conquering Earth to turn it into a hive, using humans to breed their young…and feed them.

But contact with Earth has been lost and even as Charlie and fleets of allied ships rush to save his homeworld, the worst may have already happened.

Earth may be under the dominion of the Zha’-Rath masters. It may already be too late.

They pissed off the wrong soldier…

Brent Parthet just wanted to be left alone.

A deadly supercommando in the Southwind War, Brent had retired a hero to a wildlife preserve as far from civilization as possible to enjoy the simple life with his wife and young son.

But when one of the Southwind, the massive, genetically-engineered slaves who’d rebelled against their human masters, shows up at Brent’s door, asking for help from an old enemy, Brent will find out that the war isn’t really over. And he may have been fighting for the wrong side.