Pathfinders of the Dark: A Science Fiction Audiobook Series

The alarms begin. The Varithra arrive at Mars with everything they have, and the Vigilant Guardian answers with the one edge the enemy cannot plan for: a man who chooses the path they swore could not happen. Chapters 11 and 12 of The Battle of Mars.

Captain Stone lost eleven people on a ship called the Halcyon and spent a year filing requests by name. The Vigilant Guardian is waiting. So is a sensor chief with a question, a navigator who owes a debt, and a child's drawing taped to the lower corner of the navigation console. Chapters 9 and 10 of The Battle of Mars.

The intake shrinks. The empty chairs stay where they are. And the last thing they teach before they send you to a ship is what a Pathfinder does when there is genuinely no path left to walk. Chapters 7 and 8 of The Battle of Mars.

Eleven candidates in a bare room on a nameless moon, a mentor who tells them the truth instead of keeping them steady, and the first time Jax puts on a piece of the enemy and goes all the way down. Chapters 5 and 6 of The Battle of Mars.

A yard gate on a rainy morning, and the lesson that seeing is not the same as saving. Years later, a recruiter's screen lights up and the fleet takes notice of a drive mechanic who keeps pressing the right key before the dot moves. Chapters 3 and 4 of The Battle of Mars.

Tasker is a breaking-yard town on a gray northern coast of Earth, and Jax has spent his whole life learning to keep a secret. When a crane load drops on a wet strand, he learns what the secret actually costs. Chapters 1 and 2 of The Battle of Mars.

An introduction to the world of Pathfinders of the Dark, and the three things history got wrong about how humanity met the Varithra. Book One: The Battle of Mars begins with Episode 1, The Yards.