<b>“A spell-binding tale of intrigue and empathy.” —<i>SF Site</i><br>
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<b>“A powerful and effective story.” —Jo Walton</b><br>
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They’re ancient, power, enigmatic, and here.<br>
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Eight million alien Shian have come to Earth. Not as conquerors, or invaders, but as settlers. In exchange for their technology, they’re given places to live.<br>
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One of those places in Northern Ireland, where eighty thousand Shian settlers disrupt the old, poisonous duality of Northern Irish life. The Shian remain aloof from the legacy of violence—until a Shian family is murdered down to the last child.<br>
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Humans and aliens seem on a collision course, unless Andy Gillespie, ex-con, now Shian translator, can hunt down the killer before they strike again. But that’s not so easy in Northern Ireland…<br>
