The Ashen Reach is a graveyard of empires.In 2875, the Helion Concord still rules its fragments with fear.Ryn Varkis is a twelve-year-old street rat surviving on scraps in the undercity-until he's abducted by the Helion Concord, an empire that enslaves orphans for their secret project.Forced into a nightmare of experiments with alien technology-the Void Shard, a fragment of an ancient Vyrith artifact of immeasurable power-branded Subject Thirty, Ryn alone survives the shard's resonance.Changed by it. Hunted for it. Haunted by whispers not his own.Now, across the collapsing stations and fractured moons of the Reach, he is pursued by enforcers, machines, and zealots of the Eidolon Network. The empire believes he is a weapon. The shard insists he is something more.Seed of Ash is a bleak, cinematic space opera where cyberpunk dystopia meets ancient alien mythology. A story of survival, obsession, and rebellion at the edge of extinction-perfect for readers of Dune, Blade Runner, and The Chronicles of Riddick.