Brand of Light [Hardcover]

***2020 Carol Award Winner, Speculative***
***2020 Realm Award Winner, Science Fiction***
***2020 Alliance Award Winner, Reader's Choice***


There's a price on her head, and it has everything to do with the brand on her arm.

Tertian Space Coalition has blessed every planet in the quadrants with high technology, save one: Drosero. But in spite of their tenuous treaty with the ruling clans, TSC has plans for the backward planet. And they're not alone.

After a catastrophic explosion, Kersei Dragoumis awakens in a derelict shuttle, alone, injured, and ignorant of the forbidden technology that has swept her into a nightmare. The brand she's borne since childhood burns mysteriously, but the pain is nothing to that when she learns her family is dead and she is accused of their murders.

Across the quadrants, Marco Dusan responds to the call of a holy order-not to join them, but to seek a bounty. Gifted-or cursed-with abilities that mark him a Kynigos, a tracker sworn to bring interplanetary fugitives to justice, Marco discovers this particular bounty has nothing to do with justice and everything to do with prophecy. One that involves the hunter as much as the hunted."This new Christian science fiction series is an epic story in the making... Readers will eagerly await future books after becoming engaged in Kersei's redemptive arc." —Booklist


“Kingdoms at war. A galaxy full of intrigue. A heroine you can’t help but cheer for. Brand of Light is the exhilarating start of an epic new saga! Kendig at her best!" —Tosca Lee, New York Times best-selling author

"This book has everything: intricate worlds steeped in rich culture and twisted politics, broken treaties, secret prophecies, and heart-stopping revelations that will keep you turning pages long into the night. Kendig delivers a brilliantlÓU