Empire of Silence: The Sun Eater: Book One

Hadrian Marlowe, a man viewed as both hero and murderer, tells his story in this science fiction debut that combines space opera and epic fantasy elements. The galaxy knows Hadrian as the hero who eliminated the Cielcin threat from the sky, but also as the monster who destroyed a sun and killed four billion people—including the Emperor—in defiance of Imperial orders. Yet Hadrian was neither hero nor monster, and not even a soldier by choice. After fleeing his father and a predetermined future as a torturer, Hadrian finds himself stranded on an unfamiliar, remote world. Forced into gladiatorial combat and caught in the political machinations of an alien planetary court, he becomes entangled in a war he did not begin, fighting for an Empire he does not support, against an enemy he cannot comprehend.