From publisher blurb:
Shadows move where no light should fall. The corridors of power, long thought impervious, tremble as unseen agents slink through them, bearing whispers that could unmake empires. You are one such agent—a Blast Ranger sent into the heart of a silent war. The artifact, a device of unknown origin, pulses with alien intent. What hand built it? What mind conceived it? And why do men, powerful beyond reckoning, seek to bury it in the darkness? Some secrets should never be unearthed.
The signal came in the dead of night—a coded transmission, its sender unknown. The message was brief, but the implications vast: “I have found it. The thing they fear.” Then silence. A race begins across a dying world, where the air is thick with the ghosts of war and the cities are husks, their steel bones picked clean by scavengers. Political agents, mercenaries, and madmen clash over something no one fully understands. Some wish to protect it. Some wish to wield it. Others seek only to watch the galaxy burn. And in the center of it all, the artifact waits. It knows you are coming.