A black hole connected to the sun.

A race against time.

A question of who lives and who dies.

Across distant star systems, forces clash to save the worlds they love.

Torrance Black, stranded on a dying planet, gambles on one last hope.

Baraq Waganat, the quadar who triggered civil war, yearns to fulfil a legacy.

Allie Feder, brilliant physicist, chases the universe’s most powerful weapon.

Deidra Francis, leader of Universe Three, faces a brutal dilemma.

Zina Nichols, ambitious United Government Intelligence Officer, runs a high-stakes op.

Thomas Kitchell and Marisa Harthing, long-ago heroes of the Everguard disaster, learn to play a game they never knew existed.

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