Meet Nymeera Astrea Jones.

Starship captain. Warrior.

After years of intensive training, Nymeera has reached the rank of captain in record time. She is awarded command of a small stealth vessel—the Echo. Around them, war with a hostile alien species is heating up, but rather than being sent to the front lines, her superiors order her to explore the Centauri Nebula. A part of space no human has ever gone... or so the history books had led her to believe.

On the way to the nebula, her ship encounters a five-hundred-year-old vessel adrift in space. And inside? A man who is still alive.

Desperate to find out who he is and what secrets he's hiding, Nymeera decides to keep the man on board, despite the fact that doing so violates direct orders from her superiors.

If she's wrong, she could lose her command and all she's worked for. But the more she learns, the more she wonders if this mysterious stranger could help end the war. And why her superiors might want to stop him.