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With her enthralling Trade Pact Universe novels, Aurora Award winner, John W. Campbell finalist and Nebula nominee Julie Czerneda displayed to the utmost her world-building mastery and storytelling skill. Now, she dazzles us again with Rift in the Sky—the conclusion of the prequel series about the planet Cersi—as Aryl di Sarc and her beleaguered Om’ray contend with a Talent that will forever change their world…and their destiny.

Despite all good intentions, the lure of the Talent to move through space using the M’hir dimension is too much for the Om’ray to resist. As the awareness of this talent spreads, all those Om’ray who are capable converge on the settlement at Sona. But Sona is in crisis: A scarcity of food and water, the births of strange new children and a series of shocking revelations herald a dreaded change in the Balance of peace. A change that began—and must inevitably end—with the help of the humans who arrived from space.

To prevent the disruption of the Agreement and the destruction it would unleash, the M’hiray, as they now call themselves, agree to leave Cersi forever and try to establish their own haven within the Trade Pact worlds—only to learn that not everyone wants peace.