Kerra Tavish survived a childhood crash on an alien world. She endured eight years with a non-human tribe who became her family. She exposed a seventy-year government cover-up that shattered the Empire. But none of that prepared her for what comes next. When Imperial Intelligence plants surveillance devices on her ship and issues an assassination order, Kerra discovers she's stumbled onto something far bigger than corporate vendettas or political secrets. An ancient archive reveals the humanity—and dozens of other species across the galaxy—were seeded by the same progenitor race. And the enemy that destroyed those Precursors is returning. The Devourers will arrive in twenty-four months. They don't kill—they absorb. Entire civilizations consumed, transformed, made part of an eternal collective. The only defense is a coalition of species who've never met, don't trust each other, and have every reason to fail. Kerra must become the bridge her adoptive Mirashi mother always said she was destined to be. She'll face trials that test her body and soul. She'll forge alliances with warriors who respect only strength and crystalline minds who communicate through vibration. She'll hunt traitors within her own ranks while racing to destroy the beacon guiding the Devourers toward inhabited space. But the greatest challenge isn't the enemy fleet. It's the choice she'll face at the heart of join the collective and preserve everyone she's ever lost—or reject eternity for the messy, mortal, meaningful life she's chosen to build.