Humanity survived the invasion. That was never the endgame.
Twelve years after the Vethrak shattered Earth's defenses and vanished without explanation, humanity is rebuilding in the shadows of its own near-extinction. The official story says the enemy is gone. The truth is far worse.
When a faint signal emerges from beyond the Kuiper Belt, three warships are dispatched to investigate. What they find is not a remnant of the past, but evidence of a future already in motion. Survivors who were never meant to exist. An enemy that never stopped watching. And a countdown humanity was never meant to see.
As captains, engineers, and leaders are forced to make impossible decisions, escape becomes more than a strategy. It becomes a test of who deserves to survive.
The Exodus Rush is the first book in The Vethrak Requiem, a hard science fiction series about leadership under pressure, the cost of survival, and the terrifying realization that freedom is never given.
It is earned.