Six million years ago, at the dawn of the star-faring era,
Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a thousand male and
female clones, which she called shatterlings. She sent them
out into the galaxy to observe and document the rise and
fall of countless human empires. Since then, every two
hundred thousand years, they gather to exchange news and
memories of their travels.
Only this millennium
there is no gathering. Someone is eliminating the Gentian
line. And Campion and Purslane-two shatterlings who have
fallen in love and shared forbidden experiences- must
determine exactly who, or what, their enemy is, before they
are wiped out of existence.