About the Book
The battle lines have been drawn. The people of Russalka turn upon one
another in a ruthless and unwavering civil war even while their world
sickens and the deep black ocean is stained red with their blood. As the young civilisation weakens, its vitality fuelling the opposing
militaries at the cost of all else, the war drums beat louder and
louder.
Katya Kuriakova knows it cannot last. Both sides are
exhausted – it can only be a matter of days or weeks before they finally call a truce and negotiate. But the days and weeks pass, the death toll mounts, and still the enemy will not talk.
Then a figure
from the tainted past returns to make her an offer she cannot lightly
refuse – a plan to stop the war. But to do it she will have to turn her
back on everything she has believed in, everything she has ever fought
for, to make sacrifices greater even than laying down her own life. To
save Russalka, she must become its greatest enemy.
