Unique on Mairs, Xanthea’s past survives only in nightmares. Trained as a warrior she fears nothing—except failing to repay the debt she owes Dejana for a life she was never meant to have.

When Xanthea’s buried past collides with the present, ancient machines designed to keep Mairs alive at any cost are threatened. New ideologies rise as timeless safeguards fail. The balance sustaining a world begins to fracture.

As she races across a drying planet to prevent another apocalypse, Xanthea must decide who she is beyond obligation—and whether saving the world is worth losing the one person who gave her the strength to live in it.

Because some futures demand sacrifice, and love may be the hardest one of all.