The Temple of Silent Stars

He hears a language no one alive can speak. And it knows his name.

Dr. Julian Cross is dreaming in the tongue of a dead empire. Every night, the glyphs sharpen. Every night, the coordinates burn deeper. The voice the synthetic Tess Vox calls Kairos is no longer whispering. It is steering.

When the dream-coordinates lead Julian and pilot Rhea Calder into the black-market sprawl of Veiltrade, then down through the obsidian halls of Sephon IX, what they find is not an artifact. It is a wound. The Velek’Zor built the Temple of Silent Stars to bury a recursion the galaxy could not survive. Julian’s nightmares have been teaching him how to open it.

Now everyone wants the keys.

Elyndari hardliners hunt him as a contaminant. The Kaldaari trader Vex Tarrish wants to broker his bones. Earth isolationists want the Signal Thief silenced before the species fractures around him. And Rhea, who carries Velek’Zor resonance in her own veins, is becoming something no council in known space will allow to live.

Three fugitives. Two Vault keys. One chance to write the next cycle instead of being written by it.

The recursion has started. Open the door.

The Temple of Silent Stars is the high-stakes second book in the Relic Wars saga, a story of alien archaeology, fractured loyalties, and what it costs to carry a truth the universe has spent a million years trying to forget. Perfect for fans of Nathan Hystad, JN Chaney, and Peter Cawdron.

Perfect for readers of Alastair Reynolds, Adrian Tchaikovsky, James S. A. Corey, and Pierce Brown. Fans of cosmic-scale science fiction with character at the wheel will find a home here.