Chasing Falls

The tribes of Cinerys have always fought over the Falls—mysterious containers that plummet from above, bringing precious water, food, and materials to a planet where nothing grows. Are these gifts from above? Or are they strikes on already scorched earth? The desperation for survival pushes tribes to clash over the difference between life and death.

Roan, an outcast who lives in settlement Thirty-Two, feels the Falls coming before anyone else—like a foreign language that's interpreted by his own nerves. The pull they have on him, he cannot explain. The people of Settlement Thirty-Two whisper suspicious rumors of his origin.

When Scarborn raiders tear through his home, everything changes. Separated from Bole, his protector, Roan discovers these differences are not random—they are the reason his settlement burned.