Ninth City burning /

Centuries of war with aliens threaten the future of human
civilization on earth in this gripping, epic science
fiction debut ... We never saw them coming. Entire cities
disappeared in the blink of an eye, leaving nothing but
dust and rubble. When an alien race came to make Earth
theirs, they brought with them a weapon we had no way to
fight, a universe-altering force known as thelemity. It
seemed nothing could stop it - until we discovered we
could wield the power too. Five hundred years later, the
Earth is locked in a grinding war of attrition. The
talented few capable of bending thelemity to their will
are trained in elite military academies, destined for the
front lines. Those who refused to support the war have
been exiled to the wilds of a ruined Earth. But the
enemy's tactics are changing, and Earth's defenders are
about to discover this centuries-old war has only just
begun. As a terrible new onslaught looms, heroes will rise
from unlikely quarters, and fight back.