Zina Nichols, ambitious Intelligence Officer playing a dangerous game. She knows Universe Three has a black hole planted in the Solar System's sun. Time is short but power is within reach.
Deidra Francis and Universe Three, on the brink of freedom, struggle with a decision. Do they want true freedom if it means destroying the entire solar system?
Marisa Harthing and Thomas Kitchell, long-ago heroes of the Everguard disaster, find themselves entangled in a game they never wanted to play.
And, stranded on a desolate and dying planet with a species of intelligent life struggling to see a future while surviving a civil war, Torrance Black has one last gasp of hope.
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