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WARTORN EBURINE IS ON THE CUSP OF THE TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION.
FREYA EDEMNAR stows away on her overachieving sister's ship to arrive at the grand New Stegend.
Successfully infiltrating Eburine's ruling class will help any junior resistance member gain recognition, and Freya jumps at the chance. But, she quickly realizes that among the most notorious of Eburine's powerful, everyone and everything is more than meets the eye.
She finds herself in a struggle for power to protect everything she has while reaching for even more. When she draws the attention of the most dangerously charismatic, cunning, and powerful elites, it becomes both easier and harder to come out on top. Especially after they entangle her in a web of glittering lies and enticing promises of security, wealth, and even love.
But, she learns their cards and strikes back with her own.
HALLE EDEMNAR is recruited into Eburine's top laboratories.
Day and night, the most talented scientists and inventors try to harness the ever-elusive properties of azoth-an unknown energy that bursts from the drained empyreal wells, sparking new hope for something that can power cities.
However, the pursuit proves to be much more challenging than anyone could have imagined. Locked in a diplomatic and scientific stalemate, Halle soon realizes that nothing she does remains within the laboratory walls.
With the help of a few lab friends-including Ciaran Sunchaser, who she tries never to speak to again after a turbulent relationship two years ago-Halle works to explain everything they've seen so far, from murders to expulsions to the focus on gene-altering serums.
As Freya and Halle navigate their seemingly separate lives, their worlds collide in the most destructive way possible. The threads of the unravelling Eburine are clutched in their hands, and the fate of the nation soon hinges on where they pull the strings.
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