The Special Warfare Operations and Reconnaissance Division is the United Orion Empire’s darkest secret. From its headquarters in a starless corner of space, SWORD trains and deploys wraiths, the most advanced and lethal special operatives in the Empire, to carry out orders too dangerous or too difficult for anyone else.
At the age of fourteen, homeless orphan Hailey Ramirez is offered a place among the elite ranks of the wraith recruits. With no other future in sight, Hailey accepts, and is thrown into a world of pain and deceit.
As the name implies, wraiths are ghosts in the Empire: recruited as children, erased from public records, and rechristened with code names. Agent Hailey Ramirez is Comet, the seventy-fourth wraith ever created. With cranial implants, enhanced body parts, and years of intense training, the girl who was Hailey is no more. Hailey’s Comet now, and Comet’s a superhuman.
But even a superhuman is human at her core.
