Fifteen years after the scarabs destroyed Fathomscape Station, the Dor'ecki home world has been found.
Janice's youngest daughter, Kalithee, is the only Dor'ecki maggot in known space — gentle, artistic, and raised on stories about the beautiful civilization of her lost people. But everyone else who has ever crossed paths with the Dor'ecki remembers only the scarabs: metal-winged, bullet-proof, and the reason half of Janice's family is dead.
When the Dor'ecki home world is finally discovered, war becomes inevitable — and Kalithee's window to meet her own people begins closing fast. Janice has spent fifteen years telling her daughter that her people could be beautiful. Now she has to decide if she believes it enough to bet her family's lives on it.
What they find underground is a civilization out of a dream: cathedral caverns lit by rivers of fireflies, scarab-back riders, and shrine halls hung with painted wings preserving the faces of the honored dead. It's everything Janice promised her daughter. It's everything she feared. And it will cost her more than she ever agreed to pay.
Don't miss this dark, devastating third installment of the Xeno-Spectre series.Perfect for fans of sci-fi horror and tragedy, from Alien to Arrival.
Genre: Science Fiction
Janice's youngest daughter, Kalithee, is the only Dor'ecki maggot in known space — gentle, artistic, and raised on stories about the beautiful civilization of her lost people. But everyone else who has ever crossed paths with the Dor'ecki remembers only the scarabs: metal-winged, bullet-proof, and the reason half of Janice's family is dead.
When the Dor'ecki home world is finally discovered, war becomes inevitable — and Kalithee's window to meet her own people begins closing fast. Janice has spent fifteen years telling her daughter that her people could be beautiful. Now she has to decide if she believes it enough to bet her family's lives on it.
What they find underground is a civilization out of a dream: cathedral caverns lit by rivers of fireflies, scarab-back riders, and shrine halls hung with painted wings preserving the faces of the honored dead. It's everything Janice promised her daughter. It's everything she feared. And it will cost her more than she ever agreed to pay.
Don't miss this dark, devastating third installment of the Xeno-Spectre series.Perfect for fans of sci-fi horror and tragedy, from Alien to Arrival.
Genre: Science Fiction
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