Starborn Tales: The Awakened

By Heeth Lewotsky

Humanity has survived the Rift. The enslavers are broken, and Earth now shines beneath the crown of the great orbital halo - a symbol of unity and hard-won freedom. But peace brings new challenges, and the first generation born under the halo will never know chains, division, or war.

They are the halo children - gifted with resonance from their first breath, carrying fire as naturally as heartbeat. To them, the hum is not burden, but birthright. To the war-scarred Awakened, this new generation is both promise and danger. For fire without scars may forget the cost of freedom.

As the cadets rise in the Academy, tensions flare between the old guard and the halo-born. And when shadows stir within the ring itself - a Rift-forged seed whispering to the young - humanity faces a new kind of trial. Not against fleets or enslavers, but against themselves.

Can the halo children carry the flame without repeating the past? Or will the fire of sovereignty be consumed from within?

Children of the Halo is the fifth entry in the Awakened Saga, continuing the Starborn universe with a story of legacy, generational fire, and the struggle to live with the very power that saved them.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FS7RNQDK
• ISBN13: 9798266683129
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"