The Story

The deeper they go, the older the mystery becomes.

Haven has become a crossroads. Ships and representatives from newly reconnected worlds now move through a growing interstellar network, while Crossroads Station rises above the planet to manage the traffic, diplomacy, research, security, and uncertainty that comes with it.

For Naomi Vale, a new chapter begins with the retirement of Wayfarer—and the unveiling of a vessel built for something far more ambitious: long-range exploration beyond the familiar Roads.

For Evan, Mara, Julian, Gabriel, and the rest of Haven’s explorers, the first major expedition should answer questions that have waited for thousands of years.

Instead, Road Forty-Three produces evidence that the civilizations long believed to have built the Fold may only have inherited it.

And somewhere beyond the Roads lies the Dark Between—a place containing structures older than the Builders, still capable of recognizing travellers after untold ages of silence.

The question is no longer who built the Roads they know. It is who came before everyone else.