His Unwanted Wife Returned as a Boss
self she had once been—fluttered across her office and landed on the hologram of Mars.
"The Reader didn't just send a message, Luc," Hope said, her voice resonant with the authority of two worlds. "They sent an Opening Statement. The twenty-year peace was just a Grace Period. The interest on our existence has finally come due."
The Internal Schism: The Red Sands of Revelation
On Mars, Julian Thorne felt the shift before he saw it. The soil beneath his fingernails suddenly felt... Correct. The struggle to make things grow vanished; the apple tree sapling he had just planted surged upward, its bark turning a lustrous, metallic silver.