Shadow of the Xel'Naga

In the uneasy aftermath of the Confederacy's fall, a young Terran officer sent to secure a newly surveyed world instead uncovers ruins left behind by the vanished Xel'Naga, the precursor race whose fingerprints lie on both Zerg and Protoss alike. Written under Kevin J. Anderson and Rebecca Moesta's joint pen name, the second StarCraft novel quietly sets up the tensions that explode in Brood War.