The Insumates

The White Calamity marches relentlessly across the eclipsing surface of Duranaya. It spares no one in its goal to free its perpetrators from their ancient curse. Far beyond Gerulo, cities burn and Duranayan life winks out in blood and ash. Ozmadon, Queen of the Minians, seeks an unlikely alternative to the extinction. Unbeknownst to him, so does his ally. For different, unsavory reasons.

The resistance which survives behind the ever-expanding enemy line flies many colors. A discarded princeling, a captive insumate, an assortment of ragged doctors and soldiers, and at their head, a disgraced Xerati advisor with a prime piece of her kind's currency: a world-toppling secret.

Sequestered in Gerulo, the Hamilo family has just gained its newest, youngest member. She carries much for one so young, but among her unwanted knowledge and experience is the key to saving Duranaya, both from the army of the Undersurface, and from itself.

Suspicion sours the protection of Gerulo. Reph, Grinla, Whissen, and Triwalo must escape it for one last journey, this time to the center of the world, the center of the Resurface itself. Can they arrive in time to save what remains of their people?