Publisher's Synopsis
"Marie Bilodeau knocks my socks off." -Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo Award-winning author of WAKE A broken tradition. A hunted child. A rebellion that threatens to topple the very fabric of the universe. When Layela Delamores gives birth to her first child, the ether immediately rejects what should be its only heir. A wave of destruction sweeps the ether races and sparks Solaria's ire and rebellion on Mirial. A new heir rises to take the throne of Mirial, one who wields tainted ether. Unable to access the flow of ether, Layela is left with little choice but to flee Mirial, seeking answers that may no longer exist, prepared to sacrifice everything to free herself and her daughter from the clutches of the First Star.
