She thought the hardest part of growing up was already behind her. She was wrong.
On the last day of senior year, Michelle is days from aging out of foster care with nowhere to go — when the sky tears open and drops her into a world of living relics, ancient gateways, and cities built on the bones of older cities. Survival here isn’t heroic. It’s learned. And protection always comes at a cost.
Taken in by a guarded warrior with a buried past, a woman who has lost as much as she has, and a fierce orphaned girl determined to be more than a victim, Michelle finds the one thing the system never gave people who choose to stay. But Neviath is unraveling — a prophecy that no longer follows its own rules, forgotten powers waking inside her, and the truth behind a fallen world rising to the surface.
To protect the family she never expected, Michelle has to decide who she’s going to become — and what she’s willing to lose.
Some doors change you forever. Some choices can’t be undone.
The first book in a sweeping epic science-fantasy saga about found family, survival, and the cost of power. For readers of Brandon Sanderson, Robin Hobb, and Patrick Rothfuss.