Owen Deathstalker's greatest love—Hazel d'Ark—has been abducted by a cult dedicated to the excesses of scientific experimentation. Stranded on Lachrymae Christi, Owen struggles to help a leper colony survive, waiting for his chance to rescue Hazel. But Humanity is once again in the throes of intergalactic war... Will Owen surrender to the battle cry? Or forsake his own destiny...for the woman he loves? "Green blends derring-do, space battles, and wry banter aplenty to form an eminently satisfying space opera." —Booklist \* Simon R. Green is the New York Times bestselling author of Blue Moon, Shadows Fall, and thirteen other novels \* Deathstalker Destiny is the fifth novel in a big intergalactic adventure in the tradition of Star Wars

For centuries, the planet Zero Zero has been quarantined by the Empire, after experimental nano-technology went horribly out of control there. All life on the planet was transformed into something alien and dangerous. But Commander John Silence and his crew are compelled to return to Zero Zero in desperate hope of finding a way to combat the current nano-plague unleashed upon humanity by the AI's of Shub. What they find on Zero Zero will shake all their notions of reality. On Golgotha, the Royal Wedding proceeds apparently as planned, but the secret society called Blue Block has their own agenda for the king to be. Robert Campbell was a groom once before at a ceremony that ended in tragedy, and he may be about to relive that horror, if Blue Block has their way.