The second book in this brilliant new series from bestselling author of THE ANCIENT FUTURE, Traci Harding. Throughout the Universe, the secret of life is pursued to the death ... In the light-field all paths lead to the ancient future BEStSELLING AUtHOR OF tHE ANCIENt FUtURE taking risks is second nature to taren, but this could be more than she can handle ... Amidst a raging space-quake and shrouded by celestial mist, the lost world Maladaan appears in the Esh-mah star system hurtling towards the sun. taren Lennox and Lucian Gervaise, floating adrift through space on AMIE, are rescued by the immortal psychics of a utopian planet. But their saviours believe taren and Lucian to be incarnations of their great ancestors, come to help them remove this new, aggressive neighbour from their universe. Aided by her new allies, taren seeks to retrieve her lost memories from the Maladaan Secret Service's memory banks - discovering the way to return Maladaan to its rightful universe and future lies ten years in her past ... 'immersive ... an imaginative feat of world buildingthat explores new possibilities of being.' tHE AGE on tHE UNIVERSE PARALLEL'the kind of genre-blending book that has won Harding so many avid readers' BOOKSELLER + PUBLISHER on BEING OF tHE FIELD