Pell’s world runs on dust, scavenged tech, and the mysteries left behind by the long-gone Ancients. As a digger and engineer, she’s devoted to salvaging the past to keep her village alive.
When the reclusive keepers of Emgarden’s tower summon her, Pell finds herself tasked with breathing life into machines even stranger than the artifacts she knows. And Heartwood, the tower’s guarded, magnetic keeper, proves just as confounding.
As Pell restores a colossal relic, she begins to experience visions that hint at the tower’s true origins—and her own unsettling connection to it.
The more she unravels, the closer she edges toward a secret powerful enough to change everything. But some truths were buried for a reason—and digging them up might cost more than Pell is willing to lose.
