Echo Volume 2: The Taste of Ashes
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Atriya's faces an impossible choice: Go back to working as an Enforcer or try out for Wraith Selection, a one-in-ten-thousand shot that he'll survive. First he has to survive a raid where both Dissident forces and his own side are trying to kill him. He will find out what it's like when his world burns, and all that's left to eat are ashes.
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