In Shardavan, a sacrilegious murder sets in motion an investigation that pulls one woman into the deepest conspiracy her city has ever buried. Anu Eshana is a Plain detective, underpaid, underestimated, and invisible to the crystalline frequency that grants power to everyone above her. Handed a case, the authorities only want it closed and told to leave it alone. What she finds beneath the official version is not just a killer but an architecture: thirty years of biological energy harvested from the city's most powerful people, broadcast outward into space, received by something that has never been named. In a world where the Shards from space are worshipped as salvation, Anu is the one person the system was never built to hold, and the only one who can bring it down. Set in the universe of Caldopia.

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