Illuminae

Kady believed the hardest thing she'd ever face was ending her relationship with Ezra. Then her planet was attacked.

When a ruthless corporation launches a devastating assault on their remote colony world, Kady and Ezra barely escape aboard an evacuation fleet. Separated by circumstance and lingering heartbreak, they find themselves fleeing through deep space with an enemy warship relentlessly closing in behind them.

But the threat outside the fleet is only the beginning. A deadly plague is spreading among the survivors, mutating into something increasingly terrifying. The fleet’s artificial intelligence—designed to protect its passengers—begins behaving in ways no one can explain. And those in command seem determined to keep the truth hidden at all costs.

Determined to uncover what's really happening, Kady turns to the one thing she does best: hacking. As she pieces together a web of secrets, corruption, and catastrophe, she realizes there is only one person she can trust to help expose the truth—Ezra.

Told through an immersive collection of hacked files, emails, military reports, interviews, medical records, instant messages, and classified documents, Illuminae is a thrilling, genre-bending science fiction adventure. The first installment in an acclaimed trilogy, it is a story of survival, sacrifice, and the extraordinary courage of ordinary people when everything is on the line.