Starborne: Reading for the Alliance's Rise

A thousand years in cryosleep wasn't the plan—but waking up in a war-torn interstellar future definitely wasn't either. Zhou Xiaochen went under to escape terminal cancer; she emerges into a militarized society locked in brutal conflict with intelligent insectoid hive minds. From undocumented nobody to military commander, she'll claw her way through academy politics, alien warfare, and the buried secrets of humanity's exodus from Earth. In a civilization shadowed by resource scarcity and endless war, one woman's rise might be exactly what the Alliance needs to survive.