Molly Patel was only seven years old when the alien alliance known
as the Covenant destroyed her homeworld and killed her family. As one
of the few to escape the glassing of Paris IV, and despite the United
Nations Space Command winning the war on behalf of humanity, Molly never
forgot how much she had lost.
Nine years later, when her
adoptive parents—research scientists specializing in ancient Forerunner
technology—are called to the mysterious and wondrous place known as
Onyx, Molly vehemently objects. It’s not so much that Molly’s concerned
about relocating to inside a spherical construct the diameter of an
entire solar system, but the fact that she also has to live alongside
members of the same alien species that murdered her family. And when the
Servants of the Abiding Truth—a violent ex-Covenant sect under the
guidance of the notorious Pale Blade—somehow makes its way inside this
supposedly impregnable sphere, Molly is now forced to consider if she
and her new parents have made a terrible and fatal mistake in coming
here....
Authored by Matt Forbeck
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