They're trapped in the Risen Empire, and there may be no escape.

The Risen must rise – it's in the name and trapped in their collective psyche, a virus that will never die.

That doesn't mean First Strike and her friends can give up. Do you think they've come this far and sacrificed so much to roll over now?

As circumstances keep them apart, they'll have to fight for the same cause or die. Lose, and they'll take the Coalition with them. For now the future of the Milky Way rests in their hands, and none more so than with First Strike, the psychic soldier sent to destroy all.

Can she find it in her heart to help her friends and the civilization she once vowed to destroy, or will the Risen take her and make her into the mindless weapon she always wanted to be?

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First Strike follows a Barbarian psychic weapon and the cybernetic soldier sent to stop her fighting to save the galaxy from a powerful empire. If you crave space opera with action, heart, and a splash of romance, grab First Strike Book Four today and soar free with an Odette C. Bell series.

First Strike is the 22nd Galactic Coalition Academy series. A sprawling, epic, and exciting sci-fi world where cadets become heroes and hearts are always won, each series can be read separately, so plunge in today.