Book Description
Mirael Voss spent twenty-two years as the sacred Vessel of a doomsday water-cult, believing the Prophet's voice was God's voice. When she discovers the holy Ascension Rite is a fatal bone marrow extraction, she escapes into the desert wasteland—only to be found by Luca Maren, a cynical hydrologist who lost his sister to a different cult. Together, they uncover the truth: the Prophet is no holy man, but a pharmaceutical executive who engineered the water crisis to build an empire. With Mirael's blood carrying a rare enzyme that can purify any water source, they must infiltrate the compound, synthesize the antidote, and free a region held hostage by manufactured thirst. But first, Mirael must face the room she left off her maps—and the man who taught her that obedience was love.