They came to harvest a world. They found a people willing to bleed for it.
Beneath a sky wrapped in rings, humanity has arrived on a world it believes is waiting to be claimed.
It is not.
Nymira is Eldruhn, one of an antlered people whose lives are bound to the forces of the world around them. Her people have survived for generations by listening to the forest, the rivers, and one another.
Then humans begin taking from the coast.
Raven Calder has spent her life inside the colony that sent them. She has been taught that expansion is necessary, resources are scarce, and the creatures beyond human territory are dangerous wildlife.
But the reports do not match what she sees.
As human expeditions push farther into Eldruhn territory, Nymira is forced to confront a threat her people do not understand—and a rage within herself that may be just as dangerous.
Far beneath them, another civilization is beginning to notice the disturbance.
The Ceralis have survived the ocean depths through shared minds, living cities, and memories carried across generations. They do not yet know what has arrived above them.
They only know that something is changing.
Three civilizations are moving toward the same collision from different directions.
And humanity is about to learn that it did not discover an empty frontier.
It arrived in someone else’s home.
