Empire of Silence

Hadrian Marlowe,a man revered as a hero and despised as a murdererchronicles his tale in the galaxy-spanning debut of the Sun Eater seriesmerging the best of space opera and epic fantasy. It was not his war. The galaxy remembers him as a hero: the man who burned every last alien Cielcin from the sky. They remember him as a monster: the devil who destroyed a suncasually annihilating four billion human livesΓÇöeven the Emperor himselfΓÇöagainst Imperial orders. But Hadrian was not a hero. He was not a monster. He was not even a soldier. On the wrong planetat the right timefor the best reasonsHadrian Marlowe starts down a path that can only end in fire. He flees his father and a future as a torturer only to be left stranded on a strangebackwater world. Forced to fight as a gladiator and navigate the intrigues of a foreign planetary courtHadrian must fight a war he did not startfor an Empire he does not loveagainst an enemy he will never understand.