Echoes of Insurrection

Kira Forrest expected a few quiet months. The alien enemy behind the largest war in human history is in retreat, and she and the people she counts as family finally have time to recover from what they went through.

The rest ends when an attack strikes the Great Houses and exposes weaknesses in the foundations of the empire. Suspicion falls on Kira's birth house. To shield her new home and everyone living in it, she has to identify the real culprits before the blame sticks.

The search takes her to unfamiliar planets and eventually to a place tied to her own past. Control of a tense, unstable universe hangs in the balance, and Kira faces a choice between the love that sustains her and the safety of everything she holds dear.

This is science fiction with a space-empire setting, built around a political conspiracy and a hunt for those behind it. It follows Kira as the threat turns from an external enemy to one inside the empire's own power structure, and the stakes rise from personal to universal as the search goes on.