Andrew “Ender” Wiggin thinks he is playing computer simulated war games, but he’s a genetic experiment the military needs to be successful against the Buggers. A success that will also overcome his plotting brothers.
A derelict Formic colony ship offers Bean and his three children the chance explore their own genetic anomaly and the mysterious disease that killed the ship’s colony.
Bean, strategist and general in the terrible wars that followed Ender’s defeat of the alien empire, and his wife, Petra, yearn for a safe place to build a family. Yet no such place exists on Earth, a world riddled with Bean’s enemies from the past. Once again he must follow in Ender’s footsteps and look to the stars.
Danny North is an outsider in his own family. A boy with no talent in a house of secrets, great expectations, and so many rules, isolated far from town, from other people.
With his Maker knack, Alvin is trying to avert the war his wife, Peggy, sees coming.
Alvin’s destiny takes him and his wife, Peggy, a Torch who can see the fire burning in each person’s heart, on separate journeys, but only one path exists that leads through the bloodshed.
Alvin Miller’s aim is to create a brighter future for America, but he’s challenged by the Unmaker, who plots to end Alvin’s life.