The Last Day of the War by Daniel G. Zeidler
Available on 27 September 2024!
When a fleet of human colonists, lost and growing desperate, found an Earth-like world to settle, they named it Aurora in honor of what they were certain was the dawn of a new Age for humanity, an era of peace and prosperity. For a time, it seemed as if their dreams had come true, but then came Jarma Kaarl and General Adain, and with them came war and the cult that worshipped it above all else. A century after the war began, art thief Aleris Tynet was arrested and sentenced to serve a term in the Army. There, she saw things others did not, and realized that her world and her civilization were dying. She had no way of knowing the war would soon come to an abrupt end and a countdown had begun to its last day; a day that would forever change both Aurora and her people…