I need to just step away from Query Shark for a while, right?
Willa Bresher wanted her life to matter. She didn't want the
fate of her entire culture resting on her shoulders.
Her
home is Haven, a network of villages clinging to civilization three centuries
after a plague devastated Earth's population. Headstrong and restless, Willa is
determined to escape the banality of village life by earning an apprenticeship
with the arcane guild of mind-linked "Bridgers", who control the flow
of goods and information between villages.
When
she encounters an intriguing outsider named Akenam in the ruins of an ancient
city, Willa's path begins to veer off course. Space-dwelling humans have
returned to resettle the planet, and their intentions toward the aboriginal
Terrans are unclear.
Willa
follows Akenam to a distant island to join five other envoys at a summit
meeting to argue over land allocation and trading rights. She soon finds herself fighting for
Haven's survival when a message from her long-dead mother leads her to uncover
a centuries-old conspiracy that threatens her people. Aided by Akenam, whose
loyalty she doubts, Willa risks everything in order to save her home.
Trouble
is, once she's uncovered the secrets of Haven's past, she's not sure it
deserves to be saved.
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