Blood of the Cosmos is the eagerly awaited second book in The Saga of Shadows, a stand-alone 'next generation' trilogy set two decades after the end of the previous series.

An epic space opera of the titanic conflict between several galactic civilizations and a life-destroying force of shadows, a dark cosmic force that has swept through the undercurrents of the human interstellar empire...

The intertwined plots, overflowing with colorful ideas, a large cast of characters, and complex story lines span dozens of solar systems, alien races, and strange creatures.

As the second book of the trilogy opens, the humans and Ildirans, having narrowly escaped annihilation at the hands of the Shana Rei and their robot allies in The Dark Between the Stars, are helpless before the deadly black clouds that absorb all life. The last few survivors of the mysterious Gardeners, whose world was smothered by the Shana Rei millennia ago, raise countless questions of their own, and these alien* refugees may be a disaster in disguise, threatening the entire worldforest.

While the unpredictable shadow clouds continue to attack worlds indiscriminately, a desperate alliance among empires tests a provocative new weapon that may be powerful enough to combat the deadly shadows... but its horrible failure could bring the human race and its allies to the brink of extinction.