Alliance Armada

With the alien Adjudicators preparing an extermination campaign against human space and their Hroom allies, Captain Jess Tolvern and the former pirate Catarina Vargus are sent deep into enemy territory to buy the Alliance time. Their raid uncovers a hidden system where the Adjudicators are reviving an ancient machine built to devour entire starships. The second novel in Michael Wallace's Alliance Trilogy.