Kurzbeschreibung:

Head peace officer Anya Savelova believed her people, living on a hostile planet in the ice-bound city of Novayarkha, were the last of humanity.

Until the day she learned they werent.

When a starship from an Earth thought long dead appears in orbit over her world, Anya imagines an explosion of possible futures, offering her people the freedom to transcend the limiting environment of the planet theyd thought was their last refuge. In the starships crew, Anya finds creativity, diversity, innovation-all things the colony has had to inhibit to survive.

Seeing her world through the eyes of the starship crew makes Anya look closer at her citys inconsistencies, oddities shes always been told to ignore. But the harder she pushes at the pieces that dont fit, the more her government perceives the strangers as a threat. There are secrets in Novayarkha, hiding in plain sight, that the strangers cant possibly understand-and Anyas drive to uncover them risks shredding the fragile web holding together everything shes ever known and loved.