Exiled : Book 1 of The Concord Chronicles

What happens when an intelligent AI Emperor can't solve a planet's mysteries and deems it too dangerous to colonize? In the year 2679 the Nexus Dominion has seceded from the Stratist Republic to progress humanity under the rule of an Artificial Emperor starting an interstellar civil war. While the war escalates, Kira and Elira are stuck on a planet haunted by a deadly life form. With the Emperor deeming it too dangerous to colonize, it's new use is as a garbage disposal for criminals.

Follow 6 different perspectives into this universe, with a couple "one-off" character chapters. Mysterious, suspenseful, fast paced, rising stakes and epic.

An excerpt -

... Kira motioned for silence, and the militia fell still. Thats when the singing began. The singing that has haunted Kira and the colony for decades. A song that comes almost every-night, as if calling in the soul taking dusk.

It's the Leviathan's song.

It began as a tremor, a low, resonant hum that seeped through the black dome like water through cracks in stone. It wasn't music, not in any sense a human ear could comprehend, but a presence-a weight pressing down on the air, vibrating through bone and blood. The first notes crawled into the minds of the colonists, subtle and insidious, filling the silence between the storm's howls.

Then came the words...