For decades, the galaxy has been quietly harvested. Now, one salvage pilot is about to find out how deep the conspiracy goes.
When Zoe Vega stumbles onto evidence of a technology that can transfer human consciousness, she uncovers a secret that stretches back generations and a war that's already been raging in the shadows for millennia. As she and her crew dig deeper, they discover the Hierarchy: an ancient alien power that has been consuming minds across the galaxy, stripping entire civilizations of everything that makes them individual and feeding on what remains.
Phoenix Protocol: Zoe Vega Collection Volume 1 collects five interconnected stories following Zoe and her crew from their first discovery through an escalating fight for freedom, one that will cost them everything they thought they understood about consciousness, identity, and what it means to choose your own future.
At the center of it all stands a crew willing to sacrifice everything for the chance that beings scattered and enslaved across the stars might finally choose who they become.