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The Brightness Series: A Deepness Within

An outcast traveler called Naïma, five elemental wielders, and a sentient ship take on the multiverse's deadliest enemy, but when they are roped into a crumbling rebellion, Naïma has a brutal choice: revenge on her nemesis, who destroyed her homeworld - or save the few people she's come to care for.

Is love greater than vengeance?

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“The roiling hues of the jump clear into the steady pull of a new world. A blue-green planet emerges from the fractals of color.”

—From A Deepness Within by Zoë Malcolm

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