Starfall, Book 2

Xenia and her AI companion Alt settle into life in Harmonie as she attempts to recover from her journey through the wilds, only to discover that a strange mystery lurks beneath the charming town's utopian exterior. That mystery is guarded by a wily, visionary leader and an infamously scandal-prone artist, who befriend and shock the usually level-headed Xenia. Xenia's ongoing exploration is mirrored by the journey of a 19th-century former resident of the town, reformer Camilla Wright, who is setting off with her famous author sister to establish a utopian community of their own, in hopes of ending slavery. Both women's worlds are turned upside down by love and desire, and both will have to reckon with what they have seen and felt in the woods outside of Harmonie and all its heart-wrenching twists and turns.