The Quiet Between Stars

Every civilization she has ever watched has died at exactly the same moment in its development—and Cosima Vieth has watched more than two hundred of them fall. As one of the last Recorders, near-immortal archivists who document dying cultures across the galaxy, she has spent eleven million years cataloguing extinction. But when she finally uncovers the pattern connecting every collapse, the truth points toward something ancient, deliberate, and woven into the fabric of the galaxy itself. Now Cosima must decide whether to remain a witness to death or become something she has never been: a force for survival.