The Commander He Feared

She pulled him out of the sea. He pulled her out of the life she was drowning in. Juno Reyes is twenty-two and good at one thing: finding things in wreckage. What she finds this time is Sarrin, Commander of the Vek Assault Fleet, four hundred seasons old and convinced her station's smallest child is a god. She thinks he's a lunatic. He thinks she's a miracle. Neither is wrong. When the Vek come to reclaim their commander and burn anyone he touched, Juno has to smuggle a warlord across the Rim — arguing with him the entire way. He teaches her that discipline can be love. She teaches him that love can be insubordinate. When his own council demands the child be handed over as a living weapon, Sarrin chooses her over the fleet he has led for four centuries. Some traitors are just early loyalists.