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Blurb: “With novels like Nine Layers of Sky and The Poison Master, Liz Williams proved her brilliance for imagining life after the loss of humanity and worlds beyond time and space. Now this provocative author transports us to a place where bodies and souls have been rent asunder, the past is the future, and a most unusual haunting is about to begin....
One of Mars's most elite warriors, Dreams-of-War, must travel to Earth, where she has been assigned to guard a very special child. But someone else is speeding toward the same planet with a different agenda. She is Yskatarina lye, daughter of an ancient clan from a ghost-realm at the edge of the solar system. The result of an experiment gone wrong, she has been reborn with a terrible destiny: To seek out one little girl from the teeming hordes of the galaxy and kill her.
The girl's name is Lunae. Grown from a secret genetic code, she alone can breach time's barrier and alter the shape of things to come. She knows she has a fierce protector in Dreams-of-War, yet is powerless against the fate that hurls her back into the chasm of history. And soon savior will be pitted against killer in a race to prevent the last vestiges of humanity from being extinguished forever....”