Named one of the Best Books of 2024 by the Chicago Public Library! In this sequel to The
Darkness Outside Us a Stonewall Honor Book New York Times bestselling author Eliot Schrefer
delivers another ambitious genre-bending novel and epic love story that spans thousands of
years and the far reaches of the galaxy. Seventeen years have gone by since the Coordinated
Endeavor crashed on a distant exoplanet. Ambrose Cusk and Kodiak Celius are now the devoted
parents of two teenage children Owl and Yarrow in a hardscrabble frontier home. Though life
on Minerva is full of danger the family’s bond is enough to make it all worth it—until they
learn that the biggest threat to their survival might come from within. More than thirty
thousand years in the past Ambrose wakes on Earth to find that his mission to save his sister
was a ruse. His mother betrayed him and the cruelty of her true plans sets Ambrose spiraling.
When he discovers that another spacefarer is suffering his same fate he will have to decide
whether to risk crossing a world at war to reach him. Separated by time and space a young
family and two strangers learn that their lives are intimately intertwined. They race to
uncover the unexpected connections that might save them all . . . and perhaps humanity as well.
