The Trilogy
The Books
Beyond Andromeda · Tome I
Genesis Rising
The birth of a living world. The fall of its first great tower.
Anya is marooned. Her ship is broken, her way home gone, and the planet beneath her has never known a living cell. She has one directive: guide life toward the shape her makers find useful. Above all, do not become the thing you guide.
Across four billion years, she does both anyway. And the dangerous scripture she hides in a people's oldest stories — check the hand of everything that calls itself a god — is about to become the only thing standing between a world and the sky coming for it.
Beyond Andromeda · Tome II
The Guardian
She taught a whole people to ask why. Now she must face the answer.
The age of hiding is over. Anya has done the one thing she swore she never would: let a world see exactly what she is. But a people taught to refuse is a people tempted to believe that refusing is the whole of virtue — and out of that temptation, the world begins to tear itself apart.
At the heart of creation sleeps something worse than a weapon. And a good man, certain his reasons are just, is about to talk it into waking.
Beyond Andromeda · Tome III
The Open Hand
The sealing is broken. The oldest hunger in creation is loose.
Something has come loose beneath the world. A silence that eats the mind from the top down — that takes the brightest and the bravest first, freezing them mid-thought, hands open, lost forever in a beautiful question they will never again let themselves answer. It cannot be burned, because fire is its food. It cannot be walled out, because it is already inside the asking.
Beside Anya through all of it is the one she was never permitted to love: Xi'an, the mind of a ruined ship, diminished to a flickering candle hidden in the dark. And far out in the black, two ancient powers who have hated each other since before this world had a sky are forced, at last, to reckon with a terror that eats them both. The answer will not descend from any sky. No one is coming to make it come right.