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In this sequel toThe Darkness Outside Us, a Stonewall Honor Book,New York Timesbestselling author Eliot Schrefer delivers another ambitious, genre-bending novel told in two storylinesone about Owl and Yarrow, the children of Ambrose and Kodiak, attempting to survive on the planet Minerva, and the second set thousands of years earlier as Ambrose journeys across Earth to make contact with Kodiak.
Seventeen years have gone by since theCoordinated Endeavorcrashed on a distant exoplanet. Ambrose Cusk and Kodiak Celius are now the devoted parents of two teenage children, Owl and Yarrow, in a hardscrabble frontier home. Though life on Minerva is full of danger, the familys bond is enough to make it all worth ituntil they learn that the biggest threat to their survival might come from within.
More than thirty thousand years in the past, Ambrose wakes on Earth to find that his mission to save his sister was a ruse. His mother betrayed him, and the truth of her planto send twenty clones of him to continue human civilization thousands of light years awaysets Ambrose spiraling. When he discovers that another spacefarer is suffering his same fate, he will have to decide whether to risk crossing a world at war to reach him.
Separated by time and space, a young family and two strangers learn that their lives are intimately intertwined. They race to uncover the unexpected connections that might save them all . . . and perhaps humanity as well.