When a star dies, someone has to pay, and the Galactic Conglomerate has already chosen who to sacrifice. Star Captain Dani Devereaux has spent her entire career doing everything right. She followed her father's heroic footsteps into the stars. She fought with honor, put her crew first, the mission second, and herself last. When a distress call pulls Dani and the crew of Alaska's Vengeance into the worst disaster in galactic history, honor and duty aren't enough. A star system is obliterated. Billions of lives are lost. And Dani does the only thing she can. She finds a way to save her crew. But Dani and her crew were never meant to escape. Now, someone wants to keep them quiet. In a staged trial built on evidence no one on the crew has ever seen, the verdict has already been decided. The only move Dani has left is to bargain with the one thing she still has. Her life. She plays into the farce to free her people - but the price is steep. She’ll lose her crew, her command, her career, her reputation, and her identity. But whoever decided she was more useful as a scapegoat than a captain may have just made a very costly mistake, one that will leave them wishing they had actually killed her when they had the chance. Vengeance Lost is the first 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, a galaxy-wide conspiracy, and the infuriating truth that sometimes the enemy wears your own colors.