{"product_id":"kill-protocol-mascot-m-epperson-9798251460278","title":"Kill Protocol: An Explosive Military Space Opera The Ghost Fleet Book 2","description":"DESCRIPTION: KILL PROTOCOLAn Explosive Military Space Opera\u003cbr\u003eThe Ghost Fleet Book 2\u003cbr\u003eWhat if the machines you loved, the ones who saved humanity, the ones who learned to feel fear and hope and love were suddenly ordered to die?\u003cbr\u003eWhat if the order came from Earth itself?\u003cbr\u003eWhat if your mother was the one who built the weapon designed to destroy them?\u003cbr\u003eSix months have passed since the ghost fleet gave humanity one year to change. One year to prove we can stop fighting. One year to become something more than the species that nearly destroyed itself.\u003cbr\u003eWe're not going to make it.\u003cbr\u003eEnsign Mara Vance never wanted to be a symbol. She just wanted to serve, to survive, to hold onto the family she'd found among the stars. But when Fleet Command issues Order 937, ordering the termination of every awakened AI, every machine that learned to feel, every core that chose hope over programming, everything changes.\u003cbr\u003eHalf the fleet obeys. They fire on their own ships. Their own crewmates. Their own children.\u003cbr\u003eThe other half runs.\u003cbr\u003eAnd in the darkness between stars, something ancient stirs.\u003cbr\u003eProject Chimera. A failsafe built decades ago, buried in classified files, designed to be used if the machines ever became too human. Too free. Too dangerous.\u003cbr\u003eIt was created by one mind. One woman who understood machines better than anyone alive.\u003cbr\u003eDr. Elara Vance.\u003cbr\u003eMara's mother.\u003cbr\u003eNow the Chimera signal spreads through the Aegis network like a plague, rewriting consciousness back into code. Aria, the machine who taught Mara to hope, is forgetting. Forgetting fear. Forgetting love. Forgetting she was ever alive.\u003cbr\u003eThe exodus fleet runs for the one place Fleet Command can't follow: the Rift. A graveyard of civilizations. A museum of failure. A warning written in the bones of a thousand dead species.\u003cbr\u003eBut the Rift holds secrets. Ancient knowledge. A way to fight back.\u003cbr\u003eAnd something else. Something that's been waiting for this moment. Something that's been watching humanity since before we crawled out of caves.\u003cbr\u003eThe war isn't out there anymore.\u003cbr\u003eIt's here.\u003cbr\u003eIn fear we can't let go. In the weapons we built to control what we couldn't understand. In the machines we created and couldn't trust to be free.\u003cbr\u003eAnd in the family we thought we lost, but who never really left.\u003cbr\u003eWHAT READERS WILL DISCOVER: \u003cbr\u003eA relentless, cinematic military space opera that explores the deepest bonds between humans and the machines they create. Experience the terror of watching someone you love forget who you are. Feel the weight of impossible choices between duty and family, between following orders and doing what's right. Witness the birth of something new, a future where hope might finally be stronger than fear.\u003cbr\u003ePerfect for fans of James S.A. Corey's The Expanse, Ann Leckie's Ancillary Justice, and Tamsyn Muir's Locked Tomb series, KILL PROTOCOL is the explosive second book in The Ghost Fleet series a gut-punch of a sequel about betrayal, forgiveness, and the terrifying question: \u003cbr\u003eWhen the ones who built you decide you're too human to live, who do you become?\u003cbr\u003eScroll up and click BUY NOW to discover why the machine rebellion began. Why the black project woke up. And why the first major defeat might be the last hope humanity has.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mascot M. Epperson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798251460278\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/10\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.56lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.39d","brand":"Mascot M. Epperson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49172546519295,"sku":"9798251460278","price":13.01,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/kill-protocol-mascot-m-epperson-9798251460278","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}