When the frontier between worlds fractures, ordinary people find themselves thrust into an extraordinary war. Mara Quinn thought she’d left conflict behind—until a single transmission drags her back into a fight that will decide who survives and who is erased from history.
Across shattered cities and alien battlefields, alliances form and betrayals cut deep. Technology meant to protect becomes the deadliest weapon, and the line between friend and enemy blurs with every dawn. As old orders crumble, Mara must choose whether to follow orders or to trust the ragged band of survivors who believe the future can still be rewritten.
A fast‑paced, vividly imagined tale of courage, sacrifice, and the cost of resistance, First Battle asks what we owe one another when everything worth defending is at stake.