Icara Svi is a venerated immortal who does her best to play by the rules—until she discovers her father’s body in the wreckage of a crashed spaceship. Her father can’t be dead in this crash. He died seven years ago, in a mysterious accident that brought shame upon the Svi dynasty.

Investigating her father’s deaths will put her on the wrong side of the law, and as a monk-in-training Icara knows that Kesperen can take everything from her: her family, her immortality, even her memories.

But she can’t ignore this tragedy the way they want her to. Can she stay one step ahead of Kesperen’s agents long enough to uncover the truth? And can she guard her heart from the charming avicamel herder who’s helping her search, but may be hiding dangerous secrets of his own?

About the Author

R.L. Balladrael is a physician scientist who left academia to pursue wild entrepreneurial ventures and fiction writing. She has solved math problems until her fingers blistered, flung herself into the ocean at night to swim with manta rays, and gone grocery shopping dressed as a pirate. She writes science fiction, fantasy, and romance, usually at the same time.