
The Humble Stars
Lorcan Pike(Author)
Lorcan Pike (Publisher)
Published on 16. February 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
176 pages
979-8-2560-8252-9 (ISBN)
Description
The wall was only the beginning. For Elara Virelli, freedom is proving more lethal than the cage.
Elara has done the impossible: she has escaped the sanitized, engineered perfection of Arcadia. But beyond the border wall, the "Outside" is not the liberation she imagined. It is a fractured North American continent reclaimed by a merciless wilderness-a landscape of hard-scrabble townships, opportunistic syndicates, and the ghosts of a collapsed civilization. For a "soft" citizen raised in comfort, the Ozark wilderness is a predatory machine that never sleeps.
With her is Mirelle-a "Softened" companion whose psychological conditioning is a ticking time bomb of compliance and instability. To protect her, Elara must navigate a socio-political wasteland where every kindness is a high-interest loan and every sanctuary is a dangerous transaction.
From the grim, silent labor of the agrarian Ordnung to the wary, armed paranoia of the Bayou Covenant, Elara is no longer a student or a citizen. In this new world of "Sovereign Minds," she is something far more dangerous: she is a commodity.
As she carries a secret capable of igniting a continental war, Elara realizes that to survive the long, brutal road ahead, she must burn away her old self. Under the cold, judgmental glow of the Humble Stars, she discovers a terrifying truth: the reality of the wilderness is far more dangerous than the curated lie she left behind.
More details
Language
English
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
265 gr
ISBN-13
979-8-2560-8252-9 (9798256082529)
Schweitzer Classification