A Return to the Gates! By J. Dalton They woke something that should have stayed asleep. Commander Sheeva Glatt is no ordinary tactical officer. Half human, half feline, she is the sharpest weapon aboard the superdreadnought Gibraltar—and right now, the entire Alliance needs her to be sharper still. Across the galaxies, explorers, soldiers, and entire families have begun to vanish. The trail leads to a Dyson sphere and a race older than human memory: the Ones. Newly awakened from centuries of sleep, they do not conquer with fleets. They harvest humans in order to drink their blood. And they have already taken thousands. Captain Chen and his crew thought they were investigating disappearances. Instead, they have stumbled into a war against ancient beings and a ruler called “The Master”, who sees humanity as livestock—and he has no intention of letting their blood supply simply walk away. Sheeva must protect her ship, her captain, and a species unlike anything like this. Because the Ones are not merely thirsty, They are planning. And if the Gibraltar fails, there will be no one left to remember that humanity ever existed. amazon.com/dp/B07HNDPZHH