With the mystery of the Far Horizon solved, Tila claims her place on the rescue fleet to find out what happened to her father. Malachi and Ellie find new paths of their own. Ellie's reward for uncovering the truth of the colony mission is to join a class of cadets in a pilot program, while Malachi begins an engineering apprenticeship aboard an ancient warship. As they go their separate ways, will they realise they need each other now more than ever? Because light-years away, on the edge of Commonwealth space, something is moving...