A whiteout swallows the search party, and the only voice left on the radio is not the one Kaelen trusts. Somewhere ahead, a scholar who promised partnership has taken their proof and left a colleague to die.

When a wrongly catalogued relic exposes a mythic lead, the Field Core must race rivals and unravel living legends deep in Cartarra’s mountains—only to uncover truths that shake the world.

In the sun-scoured ruins of Cartarra, the Field Core must brave storms, rivals, and a maze of buried secrets to rescue their own—and unravel a fossil’s wartime puzzle that even history tried to forget.