Dani Devereaux is officially dead. The Galactic Conglomerate said so themselves. The reality is messier. Alive but erased, she has been conscripted into a secret off-books program with one condition: fly missions no one else has survived, or stay dead for real. The hardest part isn't the assignment. It's facing the crew she left behind. Jag is barely standing. Cassia is just finding her footing again. Cruz and Howard never stopped believing in her, but belief doesn't fix the fractures her sacrifice carved into all of them. Dani has been given a second chance and a remarkable new ship, but a crew that trusted her with their lives has to decide whether to trust her with them again. And somewhere beneath all of it, a mystery is growing. Coordinates that keep finding her. A man who shouldn't be alive. A conspiracy that didn't end with her execution. Dani is back in the stars where she belongs. But the universe has no intention of making it easy. Osirion's Ascent is the second episode in the Ardent Redux Saga, a fast-paced space opera series with found family at its core, a heroine led by honor and compassion, and a galaxy-wide conspiracy that goes deeper with every answer.