Tiamat's Wrath

Thirteen hundred solar systems from all throughout the cosmos have opened gates. But the mysteries and perils get more complex as humankind establishes its galactic empire amid the ashes of an alien world.

Elvi Okoye embarks on a frantic quest to uncover the details of a prehistoric massacre and acquire weaponry to combat unfathomably powerful forces inside the lifeless systems, whose portals lead to unsettling locales outside the realm of extraterrestrial life. However, the cost of such information could be more than she can afford.

Teresa Duarte gets ready to shoulder her father's godlike aspirations in the centre of the empire. The Mephistophelian prisoner James Holden and the sociopathic scientist Paolo Cortázar are only two of the perils in a palace full of mystery, but Teresa has a mind of her own and secrets that even her father, the emperor, is unaware of.

And the dispersed crew of the Rocinante, fighting a gallant rear-guard struggle against Duarte's autocratic authority across the vast human empire. A future under Laconia's unending rule—and with it, a war mankind can only lose—seems more likely as memories of the previous order fade. Because desire and bravery alone won't be sufficient to defeat the horrors that lurk between realms...