What price would you pay to be yourself?
The frontier planet Celestine, millennia from now.
Two months after the events of
In the Valley, A Shadow
, Alix and her crew are in hiding from the menacing Xypha Corporation.
As the crew works to repair her ship, the
Shadow
, outside a remote mining town, demons from her past are on the hunt, seeking revenge.
Jailed by the local lawman, Alix hatches a reckless plan to escape and return home to the Isidis Valley. There, she comes face-to-face with the bloody consequences of her actions.
Facing down the man who raised her, Alix must reckon with the woman she's become. Can she save the people and planet she loves, or will her lust for violence drag them deeper beneath Xypha's terrifying shadow?