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.
