Another war brews in the Outer Bounds, but this one is unraveling a mystery that threatens to consume the human race. Magali Landborn leads a rebellion to save her brethren from the yoke of the Coalition, while her sister, Anna, seeks to destroy it entirely. As the two of them struggle against their fellow humans, others are busy uncovering an ancient alien secret: a powerful malignance that already destroyed the known universe once, and whose return is inevitable.

While Magali reluctantly rallies the colonists against the Coalition in Rath, Anna meets her match in the form of the multidimensional mechanical genius Quad, and Runaway Joel uses the confusion of war to pull the heist of a lifetime. As their struggles irrevocably alter the fate of the dimension, Tatiana Eyre uncovers an ancient threat that, if left unchecked, could spell doom for all of humanity.

Sara King is the award-winning author of several bestselling science fiction and fantasy series, including The Legend of Zero, Guardians of the First Realm, and Millennium Potion. Described by the author as “a Boston Tea Party in space,” Fortune’s Rising is the first thrilling adventure in her epic sci-fi series Outer Bounds, which also includes the book Fortune’s Folly. King finished her first full-length novel at twelve years old and has since written four times as many words of fiction as there are people in her home state. A say-it-like-it-is Alaskan, Sara will utterly lose her mind if she has another stranger ask her if she knows a certain presidential candidate, if she lives in an igloo, or if she rides moose across the tundra to hunt polar bears under the fiery glow of the northern lights.