Humanity’s last chance at survival rests on a soldier who was never meant to be its savior.

The sun is dying, and what remains of humanity is running out of time.

Lieutenant “Duck” Diaz was never supposed to be its last hope. A defective super-soldier haunted by the war he couldn’t fight, Duck has spent his life trying to prove he matters.

When an advanced alien race offers salvation, they give humanity one condition:

Prove it deserves to survive. And they’ve chosen Duck to stand for them all.

His judge is Hannily, a Stellaran princess tasked with deciding humanity’s fate. But as scrutiny turns into connection, Duck begins to see a future he never believed he could be part of.

But as fear spreads, humanity begins to fracture. Some would rather seize control of its fate than earn it—and the closer Duck comes to proving humanity’s worth, the more he risks exposing its worst instincts.

To save the world, he’ll have to do the one thing he never could:

Believe he’s worth saving—before humanity proves otherwise.

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