This World Is Not Yours

Amara is seeking a fresh start after escaping her suffocating family of origin. She moves to the colony of New Belaforme, where her wife Vinh has landed a position as head of security; there, their friend Jesse researches the biology of the trio’s new home. But the planet has a secret weapon—whenever the ecology goes out of balance, the planet stages a mass die-off to right things. When a rival colony attacks New Belaforme, the scales of that balance are tipped, as is the precarious balance in the relationship between Amara, Vinh, and Jesse. The planet will take care of its human pests the way it always does, but it might have found a kindred poisonous spirit in these particular humans—if they’re willing to watch the rest of their species burn. The entire novel is a taut, twisted countdown to destruction.