The Call of the Rift: Flight

Seventeen-year-old Kateiko doesn't want to be Rin anymore - not if it means sacrificing lives to protect the dead.

Her only way out is to join another tribe, a one-way trek through the coastal rainforest.

Killing a colonial soldier in the woods isn't part of the plan.

Neither is spending the winter with Tiernan, an immigrant who keeps a sword with his carpentry tools.

His log cabin leaks and his stories about other worlds raise more questions than they answer.

Then the air spirit Suriel, long thought dormant, resurrects a war.

For Kateiko, protecting other tribes in her confederacy is atonement.

For Tiernan, war is a return to the military life he's desperate to forget.

Leaving Tiernan means losing the one man Kateiko trusts.

Staying with him means abandoning colonists to a death sentence.

In a region tainted by prejudice and on the brink of civil war, she has to decide what's worth dying - or killing - for.