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They crossed the stars... and came back to a life that no longer exists.
Nine years passed on Earth.
For James Hayden and his crew, it was only months.
Friends are older. Relationships have changed. The world they fought to return to has moved on without them-and some things can't be reclaimed.
But the past isn't done with them yet.
Buried inside alien wreckage is a fragment of something impossible: a memory pointing to a nearby star system-Luhman 16-and the unsettling possibility that humanity is not alone in ways they don't yet understand.
As Bernard's Promise is rebuilt in orbit, the promise of a second mission ignites hope... and fear.
Because while the crew struggles to reconnect with the lives they lost, forces on Earth are already shaping the future in secret. A quiet conspiracy is unfolding-one that sees humanity not as it is, but as something it must become.
No matter the cost.
Caught between the pull of the stars and the people they left behind, James and his crew face an impossible choice:
Push farther into the stars... or defend the fragile world they left behind.
Because the next mission won't just shape humanity's future-
It may determine whether it has one at all.
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