Thousands of Marines died before even landing on Kanaris. Eamon Tauk wasn’t one of them. He only wishes he had been.
Trapped behind enemy lines in a merciless alien rainforest, Cadet Tauk must lead the shattered remnants of his unit across hundreds of kilometers of predator-infested jungle toward a colony that vanished without explanation. Narman’s Pyke is their only hope—if it still exists.
Joining him is Jella Duverii, a sharp-tongued xenobiologist who grew up in the lost colony and knows what stalks the jungle… but not how to stop it.
As unrelenting rain erodes their sanity and vicious creatures close in, Tauk realizes his greatest threat isn’t the alien planet—it’s the people he’s trying to save.
And what’s waiting at Narman’s Pyke may not want them to leave alive.