Investigator Mossa and Scholar Pleiti reunite to solve a new mystery in the follow-up to the cozy space-opera
detective mystery The Mimicking of Known Successes, which Hugo Award-winning author Charlie Jane Anders
called âan utter triumph.â
Mossa has returned to Valdegeld on a missing personâs case, for which sheâll once again need Pleitiâs insight.
Seventeen students and staff members have disappeared from Valdegeld Universityyet no one has noticed.
The answers to this case may lie on the moon of IoMossaâs homeand the history of Jupiterâs original settlements
during humanity's exodus from Earth.
But Pleitiâs faith in her lifeâs work as a scholar of the past has grown precarious, and this new case threatens
to further destabilize her dreams for humanityâs future, as well as her own.