TY - BOOK AB - "A mind-bending sci-fi mystery and tender love story about two boys aboard a spaceship sent on a rescue mission"-- AB - Seventeen years have gone by since the Coordinated Endeavor crashed on a distant exoplanet. Ambrose Cusk and Kodiak Celius are now the devoted parents of two teenage children, Owl and Yarrow, in a hardscrabble frontier home. Though life on Minerva is full of danger, the family's bond is enough to make it all worth it--until they learn that the biggest threat to their survival might come from within. More than thirty thousand years in the past, Ambrose wakes on Earth to find that his mission to save his sister was a ruse. His mother betrayed him, and the cruelty of her true plans sets Ambrose spiraling. When he discovers that another spacefarer is suffering his same fate, he will have to decide whether to risk crossing a world at war to reach him. Separated by time and space, a young family and two strangers learn that their lives are intimately intertwined. They race to uncover the unexpected connections that might save them all... and perhaps humanity as well. AU - Schrefer, Eliot, AU - Schrefer, Eliot, CN - YA PZ7.S37845 Bri 2024 ET - First edition. ID - 1562887 KW - Interplanetary voyages KW - Rescues KW - Rescue work KW - Love KW - Man-man relationships KW - Gay men KW - Space colonies KW - Families KW - Voyages interplanétaires KW - Sauvetages KW - Colonies spatiales KW - Familles N1 - "The sequel to The darkness outside us"--Front cover. N1 - Ages 13 and up. HarperCollins N2 - "A mind-bending sci-fi mystery and tender love story about two boys aboard a spaceship sent on a rescue mission"-- N2 - Seventeen years have gone by since the Coordinated Endeavor crashed on a distant exoplanet. Ambrose Cusk and Kodiak Celius are now the devoted parents of two teenage children, Owl and Yarrow, in a hardscrabble frontier home. Though life on Minerva is full of danger, the family's bond is enough to make it all worth it--until they learn that the biggest threat to their survival might come from within. More than thirty thousand years in the past, Ambrose wakes on Earth to find that his mission to save his sister was a ruse. His mother betrayed him, and the cruelty of her true plans sets Ambrose spiraling. When he discovers that another spacefarer is suffering his same fate, he will have to decide whether to risk crossing a world at war to reach him. Separated by time and space, a young family and two strangers learn that their lives are intimately intertwined. They race to uncover the unexpected connections that might save them all... and perhaps humanity as well. SN - 9780063343764 SN - 0063343762 T1 - The brightness between us / TI - The brightness between us / VL - 2 ER -