After three years as custodian of the Relay network, Nia Imani has kept Earth's sun stable, negotiated with alien intelligences, and made impossible choices about which stars to save and which to let die. She has become something more than human and less than the god the Builders once were. Now the architects of the network are stirring - not as the benevolent creators Nia imagined, but as something far stranger and more frightening. They left the Relays behind for a reason. And they did not intend for anyone to still be here when they returned. Nia has one advantage: she isn't trying to win. She isn't trying to conquer, or transcend, or become the next link in some cosmic chain. She's a janitor. She just wants to keep the lights on. In the final volume of The Stellar Vigil, Nia Imani faces the question the entire series has been building toward: when the gods come home, what happens to the woman who's been watering their garden?
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