Second installment of the new science fiction trilogy by Aurora Award-winning Julie E. Czerneda, author of the Clan Chronicles.
After having been betrayed, the surviving members of the Clan fled the Trade
Pact for Cersi, a world they believe to be their long-lost home. They
are accompanied by a lone alien, the human Jason Morgan, the Chosen of
their leader, Sira di Sarc. When Cersi proves deadly, they are forced to flee again, this time in a starship mysteriously powered by the M’hir,
heading on a course the Clan didn’t set. They land on Brightfall, which
seems to be the answer to their hopes: a world full of their kind, and a world, moreover, of peace and advanced technology. Although Morgan
makes the inhabitants uneasy, they embrace Sira and her people. But
Brightfall is a world with a secret. Buried beneath its surface,
quiescent and almost forgotten, is the planet-spanning capital of the
Hoveny Concentrix — a city and technology that’s been waiting for the
return of those sent to Cersi. A city ready to wake.