The Rift

Five hundred years ago, the Great Scalar tore a continent in half. The wound he left, the Rift, still divides the land into the territories of Leros and Galan—one governed by lawlessness and the other by rigid order.

In Galan, Fennir Locke is the most powerful scalar the world has seen since. His abilities lifted him out of the mining colonies and made him a favored instrument of the Galani military. But when he is ordered to split a mountain, a mysterious ailment follows in its wake, turning his own powers against him. He is forced to flee his position, his privilege, and everything his power bought him to seek a cure before it kills him.

In Leros, Maya was a brilliant researcher in physics at the Commons—until the day a Rift quake killed her brother Soren. She now smuggles Galani miners across the Rift, continuing the work her brother died doing. When Fennir, the infamous Mountain Breaker, is found unconscious in the fields of the farm where she lives, her every instinct screams to distrust him. Yet his arrival echoes Sorens strange, prophetic dreams.

Neither Maya nor Fennir can deny the quiet forces drawing them together. Or the sense that their meeting will reshape everything about the world they know.