FOREWORD

Corporal Greg Walker has just awoken in an icebound nightmare.

With the decades-long war between his own race and the collective of genocidal, religious zealots known only as the Covenant comes to what might be an apocalyptic end, and the Covenant at long last finding humanity's homeworld, Greg is burning with rage at the thought of not being there for what could be Earth's end.

But when he finds himself stranded on a distant, isolated planet with few allies and dwindling resources, he realizes that he's just crash-landed in his own war, and it will take absolutely everything he has to survive...