With the natural world crumbling around her, Melissa Hawthorne must venture into the bizarre and unsettling Zone 17, where she discovers a creature that holds the key to resisting the spreading spore colony ravaging the land outside her country, Ravensmantle. Driven by a desperate need to save what's left of humanity, Melissa must confront her own traumatic past and the unsettling realization that the world she once knew has been fundamentally reshaped by forces beyond her understanding. As she tracks the creature by it's trails of spore resistant seeds and flowers, Melissa is forced to question the very nature of existence, facing the chilling possibility that the sky itself has been irrevocably changed. Something is horribly wrong, even in an apocalyptic world of anomalies. As if the world itself lost all interest in sustaining humanity, those left behind outside the walls of Ravensmantle are consumed by dark growths that poison the earth, left behind as the Black Moon departed once populated land. The infected pray to it, trying to call upon it. Their cries for their God go unheaded like the rest of the planet. Nature is fine. Humanity isn't. Some look at the sky to watch the Black Moon follow its own orbit. Some watch the sky, wondering where the sky went. Some look in the mirror, wondering where their humanity had gone.  Melissa Hawthorne wondered where it all went so horribly wrong. Inspired by works such as the Southern Reach series and Annihilation (Film) by Jeff Vandermeer. Various works of HP Lovecraft, and The Broken Earth series by N.K. Jamison