The universe had been watching Sage Mackenzie for a very long time.On a remote Idaho ranch, twenty-two-year-old Sage tends to damaged veterans and grows illegal medicine, carrying the weight of her father's broken mind and her mother's heroic death. She's a guardian on the smallest possible scale-protecting forty-seven people who depend on her for their daily survival.The cosmos has bigger plans.When Sage breaks every record on what she thinks is just another flight simulator game, she discovers it was never a game at all. The Coalition Defense Forces have been searching the galaxy for someone exactly like her: someone too stubborn to let anyone die on her watch, someone who sees "impossible odds" as a personal challenge.Now ancient entities are devouring star systems, and the galaxy's best hope is a smokejumper from Earth who's never seen a spaceship but understands that protection isn't about the scale-it's about the commitment.From Idaho campfires to stellar furnaces, from guarding veterans to defending civilizations, Sage Mackenzie is about to learn that some fires burn across galaxies, and some guardians are destined for legends.The stars are calling. The fire answers.Fire in the Void - Book One of The Starfighter Chronicles