, one of thousands of holds the front lines of a deep space war. To save a world he'll never see. He survives because of a that parses out the horrors of war and anything that stops him from killing the enemy. But Peter isn't like the other . He doesn't want to fight or kill. He wants to live. Marred by deep sensitivity and self-reflection, he is failing his training sims. Endangering his entire unit. As the Antarans push closer to Earth, discovers a catastrophic failure in the recombinant tech, affecting entire batches of recombinants. She must make a brutal decision: