TEMPLAR - The Focus Templars, Book One
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"The Keth will burn the galaxy. They won't stop until we are rock and ash, orbiting the stars."
Mankind thought they were alone in space. Now, the desperate citizens of Sector 19 watch as an aggressive alien race casts terrifying images in the atmospheres of outlying worlds. After eight days, the so-called Keth set the planets to burn. The Galactic Council is distant and slow-moving, so the sector's desperate senate seeks aid from the Focus Templars, an elite order of psionics with rigorous ethical and martial training.
For Templar Zahael, one of the collective's strongest telepaths in generations, the alien threat was an exciting chance to prove himself...until the reality of war, and the trauma of an unexpected new power, leave him with nothing but a vengeance and a small crew of broken Templar outcasts.
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