Starborn — Ron Collins

A black hole connected to the sun.A race against time.A question of who lives and who dies.Across distant star systems, forces clash to save the worlds they love.Torrance Black, stranded on a dying planet, gambles on one last hope.Baraq Waganat, the quadar who triggered civil war, yearns to fulfil a legacy.Allie Feder, brilliant physicist, chases the universe's most powerful weapon.Deidra Francis, leader of Universe Three, faces a brutal dilemma.Zina Nichols, ambitious United Government Intelligence Officer, runs a high-stakes op.Thomas Kitchell and Marisa Harthing, long-ago heroes of the Everguard disaster, learn to play a game they never knew existed.Who will live? Who will die? And what will be left behind?STARBORN, the ninth book of Stealing the Sun, a space-based Science Fiction series from frequent Analog contributor and bestselling Science Fiction and Dark Fantasy author Ron Collins.