Cassilde Sam is a barely solvent salvage operator, hunting for relics in the ruins left by the mysterious Ancestorsparticularly the colorcoded Elements that power most of humanitys current technology, including the ability to navigate through hyperspace. Cassilde is also steadily fading under the onslaught of Lightmans, an incurable, inevitably fatal disease. She needs one last find big enough to leave a legacy for her partner and fellow salvor Dai Winter.When their lover and former colleague Summerlad Ashe reappears, offering them a chance to salvage part of an orbiting palace that he claims contains potentially immense riches, Cassilde is desperate enough to take the gamble, even though Ashe had left them both to fight on the opposite side of the interplanetary war that only ended seven years ago. The find is everything Ashe promised. But when pirates attack the claim, Cassilde receives the rarest of the Ancestors Gifts a change to her biochemistry that confers nearinstant healing and seems to promise immortality.But the change also drags her into an underworld where Gifts are traded in blood, and powerful Gifts bring equally powerful enemies. Hunted for her Gift and determined to find Gifts for her lovers, Cassilde discovers that an old enemy is searching for the greatest of the Ancestral artifacts the power that the Ancestors created and were able to barely contain after it almost destroyed them, plunging humanity into the first Long Dark. Haunted by dreamvisions of...

Binding: Paperback;372 pages; Publisher: Candlemark & Gleam; Classification: N/A; Weight: 666.12 g; Dimensions: N/A

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