First Strike: An Earth@War Novel

The year is 2487.Without warning, the Batron Empire launches a devastating assault against Earth's distant colonies. With Kylar II under attack and Omar IV threatened, the Fourth Fleet and the Naval Assault Forces must confront an enemy whose strength and intentions remain dangerously uncertain.From the officers directing the defense to the pilots, sailors, and ground troops caught in the fighting, ordinary men and women are thrust into an extraordinary struggle for survival. Outnumbered and stretched across a vulnerable frontier, they must rely on courage, discipline, and one another as the opening battles test their loyalty and exact a terrible price.Earth has suffered the first strike.Now its defenders must hold the line-or watch humanity's interstellar future fall to the Batron Empire.