What is the definition of strength? When is darkness no longer contrast to light but a suffocation, and how close to that line can a person walk before she risks her soul?
Ten years after she graduated from the Fleet Academe at Terracentrus, Alysha Forrest was captain of a battlecruiser. But before that dawn there was a night, and it is in the darkness that souls are made...or broken.

The tenth anniversary edition of this collection includes all new illustrations.