Above the Academy, the sky splits into rivers of gold and shadow. Historian Margaret Carter alone understands what the light announces: the two souls who once saved the world have returned, reborn in strangers who carry no memory of who they were.
Samantha Reed is an engineer who trusts only what she can measure. Connor Blake is a sculptor whose art has begun casting shadows he never made. They dream of each other. They are drawn toward each other. And a secret order that has waited generations is hunting them with weapons built to destroy a soul so completely it can never return.
Reality is trying to heal. Samantha and Connor must remember who they were, and choose who they will be, before the world comes apart at its seams.
For readers of N.K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season, this is a novel of suppressed history, fractured reality, and a love that outlasts death itself.