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Young mage Kya has a list of questions she longs to ask her guardian Dwen, who took her from her parents as a baby, allegedly to protect her from the Wooden King. Why can’t she leave the imprisonment of the walls of Raftengrad? Why does he allow her friendship with Thyme, a ghost girl who clearly makes him uncomfortable? Why has he spent her entire life training her to fight with magic? And how did he know the oil mage who tried to kill her?

On the penal colony of Hibiscus Station, no positions are as key as the Pomps, who direct the dangerous mining operations to remove highly valuable—and volatile—crystal from the moon's crust. Young was previously in training to be a Pomp until a depressive episode, mental break, and a suicide attempt. She doesn’t need the other convicts on her work team to suspect she’s unraveling again, so when she suddenly hallucinates visions of the unstable crystals in the tunnel walls around her—along with the potential danger they hold—she keeps her mouth shut.

I am death. The words repeat in Shay’s mind as she struggles to come to terms with the sacrifice. With so many of her loved ones gone, giving their lives for hers, Shay pushes through her grief to figure out what she’s capable of. When she is presented with the opportunity to bring one person back from the dead, she chooses carefully, not knowing that the result will affect her and everyone around her.

The future of a dangerous new technology hangs in the balance and betrayal lurks where Luka least expects it...In 2070, NASA plans to launch its first manned expedition to Europa, but when chief engineer Luka Janovic is attacked by an antimatter weapon - one that shouldn't exist - the future of the mission is thrown into jeopardy. Luka's closest friends and fellow crew members begin to disappear and it seems a clandestine enemy is hunting him.

Still reeling from the attack, everyone is on high alert, awaiting possible threats. As Shay continues to reconcile the new aspects of her life with the struggles from her family secrets, she decides to hide her hallucinations from those who care most. Declan and Duncan don’t find out until it’s too late that the Gael Fearg sword left more than a scar. Each kill made from the Gael Fearg will give knowledge to Shay so she can be capable of defending herself and defeating the Morrígan - leaving Shay linked to the one person who haunts her nightmares the most.

Shay Evans is your typical teenager about to finish her senior year of high school at Tremper High School in Kenosha County, Wisconsin. She is getting ready to attend college next summer with her twin brother, Tommy. Shay has pretty good grades, doesn’t get into trouble, and she isn’t the most popular girl in school. She would basically be considered a nobody, and she was all right with that. But, then the nightmares started.