Badlands

A broken captain, an afflicted soldier.

Captain JD Ambrose was once the Sovereign Fleet’s most decorated officer—until he was captured and mutilated by the Krians. Months later, physically rebuilt but mentally fractured, Ambrose is reinstated under tight supervision and assigned a deadly new mission.

When a top-secret Krian vessel codenamed Revenant vanishes into a region known as the Badlands, Captain Ambrose will find his sanity, and the limits of his humanity, put to the test. Because the Revenant isn’t just a ship, it’s a mobile platform for an unimaginable power that could turn the tide in a conflict that has no end.

Meanwhile, Private Lorna Beck wakes from cryosleep aboard a remote outpost with an alien infection under her skin. Once a boots-on-the-ground soldier, she’s now a medical anomaly. Eager to get back in the action, Beck finds herself on a mission to the planet Suleno to protect a vital Sovereign asset. But something inside her is changing.

Little do Ambrose and Beck know that their separate destinies are entwined by the search for the Revenant and the darkness within that threatens to consume them both. War with the Krians has left scars across star systems—and the people who have fought it.

From haunted veterans and altered soldiers to lost ships and buried truths, The Periphery War by bestselling author Tony Healey is a high-stakes military science fiction saga that explores what happens when the war never really ends—and the greatest threat sometimes comes from within . . .