Sovereign Guardian

The surrendered alien’s warning was only the beginning.

After saving six thousand sleeping colonists from a dead destination system, Captain Amira Rao and Commander Jonah Mercer thought the worst part of the mission was over.

Then newly commissioned Midshipman Saevari Talrith reveals the truth that should have been impossible.

She did not fly all the way to Theophany when Jonah intercepted her craft in Copperhawk.

Her lost scout craft crossed the dark expanse of space by a series of experimental “hops”—a dangerous capability that may offer the wandering colony fleet its first real chance to verify a future home before committing to it. But the technology is gone, the answers are buried in grief and guarded memory, and using what remains will require help from the only place Saevari knows to look.

Low on supplies and running out of options, Guardian leaves the vulnerable colony ship behind and heads for a rough Serevathian frontier settlement at the edge of mapped space. There they find Jayln, an off-world survivor and brilliant field scientist—one of the few people alive who understands what Saevari’s warning truly cost and who may hold the key to the hop technology.

But while Captain Amira Rao, Commander Jonah Mercer, and the crew of Guardian search for supplies, allies, and answers, the colony ship Theophany must continue on course without them.

Will they find her still flying when they return?

Sovereign Guardian is the second novel in the AEGIS Covenant series: a romance-forward space opera of alien survivors, dangerous discoveries, desperate loyalty, frontier mystery, and a small crew determined to protect the future they have been entrusted to preserve.