The Star She Called Down: A Last Resource Novel

Gem has no name. To earn one — to take her place among the Sisters and stop living as a child her village can send away — she must climb the Mountain of Lost Souls before dawn and call her spirit guide down from the morning sky. Seven days of cold and hunger have brought her no closer. On the eighth, with slavers closing in and her last strength spent, she stops holding anything back, and the sky answers.But the figure that falls is not the gentle savior of the old songs. It comes wrapped in fire, shatters the heavens, and brings a mountain down on the men who would have killed her — and on much of the world besides. What Gem pulled out of the sky is no legend. It is a stranger from somewhere beyond it: broken, hunted, and wearing the face of an enemy.Now the sky will not stop falling. Each dawn brings fire and rock, and the people who survive blame the girl who started it. To set the heavens right, Gem must protect a fallen demigod who cannot remember who he is, survive a trial that two warring peoples have rigged for her ruin, and walk a road into the Abyss that no one has ever walked back from — knowing that saving her world may cost her the name she climbed the mountain to win.The Star She Called Down is the fourth novel in the Last Resource series and the opening of a bold new chapter in the saga. New readers can begin the journey here — and those who have followed the road from Earth and Mars will finally see where it has been leading. Read more