{"product_id":"ark-of-glass-xara-quinn-9798182454667","title":"Ark of Glass: Frontier of Ash and Light 2","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe truth didn't end the war. It just changed who's fighting it.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArk of Glass follows the political fallout of the \u003ci\u003eOrvaine\u003c\/i\u003e disclosure first uncovered in \u003ci\u003eEcho Protocol\u003c\/i\u003e, and stands on its own for new readers while rewarding those who started at the beginning. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSix months after a buried signal exposed the frontier's most convenient lie, the diplomatic ark \u003ci\u003eCasivane\u003c\/i\u003e carries the last fragile peace between four factions who no longer trust each other - or the institutions that lied to them.\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTalia Soren\u003c\/b\u003e knows exactly how that lie was built. She was part of the machinery that buried it: senior enough to know something was wrong, professional enough not to ask. Now retired, she's been brought aboard the \u003ci\u003eCasivane\u003c\/i\u003e as crisis advisor - a title precise enough to be useful and deniable enough to be discarded. She didn't expect to care this much about getting it right.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDr. Imani Phale\u003c\/b\u003e doesn't need Talia's record to understand her. As the ark's shipboard psychologist, Imani has spent years treating the quiet damage institutional suppression leaves behind - officers who knew and said nothing, careers ended without explanation. She recognises Talia immediately. What she doesn't expect is to want to know her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen a sabotage campaign starts dismantling the \u003ci\u003eCasivane\u003c\/i\u003e from the inside, Talia and Imani are the only two people positioned to stop it - Talia reading the ship's structural fault lines, Imani reading the fractures in the people aboard. But what each of them knows is exactly what their professions forbid them from sharing: classified intelligence on one side, privileged confidence on the other. Every step closer to solving the sabotage is a step deeper into trusting someone they were trained never to trust completely.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the conspiracy closes in and the factions edge toward open conflict, Talia and Imani have to choose - between the safety of staying contained and the risk of being fully known, between institutional silence and the harder, costlier truth of what they actually owe each other.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eArk of Glass\u003c\/i\u003e is Book 2 in the \u003ci\u003eFrontier of Ash and Light\u003c\/i\u003e series - a mature, slow-burn F\/F space-opera romance of political intrigue, institutional reckoning, and two women who finally stop managing each other and start choosing each other. Standalone HEA; series threads continue.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePerfect for readers who love: \u003c\/i\u003e competent adult protagonists, dual POV slow burn, found-family crews under political pressure, and romances where trust is the highest-stakes negotiation in the room.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Xara Quinn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798182454667\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/20\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.42lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.44d","brand":"Xara Quinn","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49173858779391,"sku":"9798182454667","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_05a7919e-7991-456d-af4d-67e71ee5257b.jpg?v=1788956659","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ark-of-glass-xara-quinn-9798182454667","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}