Konran Andacellos has all but given up on his dream to be a starfighter. After botching an airshow maneuver and being reduced to a captaincy on a rock hauler, the ambitious twenty-two-year-old never expected an ambush to sweep in and blow his convoy to dust. With the lives of his crew on the line, Konran leaps into a pitiful one-man defense craft and obliterates the enemy against impossible odds.

Clinging to life, he’s pulled aboard a battlecruiser to heal and offered a seat in a coveted cockpit. And now he must pit his skills and instincts against an unpredictable foe that will stop at nothing to ensure his first extraordinary triumph is his last.

Will Konran become the savior the galaxy needs, or will the chill of space become his grave?