A Literary Science Fantasy of Stolen Memories, Divided Magic, and a Love the Empire Erased
Commander Samantha Reed was ordered to kill the rebel Connor Blake, and the only thing standing in her way is a three-day gap in her own memory. Whatever the Federation erased, her magic remembers.
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The Federation rules seventeen sectors on a single certainty: light and shadow magic must never touch. Yet when Samantha confronts Connor on a planet warping under his impossible grid, her golden power answers his shadow like a memory.
The deeper she digs, the clearer it becomes that her government will burn a city, and its own history, to keep her from remembering why. What did the Academy cut from her mind? Why does a decorated enforcer’s magic recognize a traitor’s? And what is the Convergence that has her masters so afraid?
To learn who she was, Samantha must destroy everything she is.
For readers of Never Let Me Go and Species Traitor, and for anyone haunted by This Is How You Lose the Time War, this is literary science fantasy where the conspiracy reaches all the way into the self.
“The Convergence was coming back. And this time, no one would be ready.”
Maria Smith’s realization, Prologue (“The Price of Power”)
“The patterns weren’t about destroying, they were about changing. Like a doctor’s blade, cutting to heal.”
Maria’s vision of the Convergence’s true nature, Prologue
“Sometimes healing hurts.”
Connor to Samantha, Ch. 3
For a hundred and fifty years, one fountain held reality together. Tonight, it goes dark.
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