The Rising Light of Lyra (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781972343005)

The Lyran Accord Series

Book 1 - Starlight Crossing

When a deep-space anomaly splits open a corridor of unnatural light, Earth's first exploratory crew steps into a crossing that shouldn't exist-one that leads straight into the Lyran Reach.

There, they find Lyra: a world shaped by living architecture, atmospheric science, and a civilization that treats ecology as law. The Lyrani don't greet humanity with weapons-but with questions. Hard ones.

Because the crossing wasn't a discovery. It was an alarm.

As Dr. Elara Miro begins deciphering the physics of the corridor, she realizes the passage is destabilizing both star systems. And the Lyrani believe Earth's arrival is tied to an old failure they swore would never repeat.

To stay in Lyran space, humanity must agree to something unprecedented: an interstellar covenant based not on power... but restraint.