Between the Stars

The door was open, and someone had been expecting this

Two years after the compact of Dark Passage, the crew of the Kairos traces a coherent gravitational signal to its source and finds a world that has been dead a very long time — not ruined, but finished: a civilization that completed its work forty thousand years ago and left everything behind in order, down to an intelligence built for the sole purpose of waiting for whoever arrived next.

Kor walks through the door first. What's on the other side is not a warning and not a trap — it's an inheritance, offered on terms the living were never meant to understand until they showed up ready to receive it. Between the Stars is a book about what it costs to finish something well enough that it still means something forty thousand years later.

Continues the story begun in Dark Passage, Book One of The Standing Wave.