Description
Ezra and Mia are no longer outside the system. They’ve been Set into it — classified, marked, placed at a tier the empire trusts — so the conversation they started can continue from within. But position changes what it holds. As months pass at the interface, speaking the system’s language of efficiency and optimum, Ezra becomes fluent in a way he didn’t choose and can’t fully see.
Then the patience runs out. A faction convinced that slow change isn’t change at all forces a crisis — a war that spreads across seven worlds, burns through Aethon, and converges in a battle neither side wanted to fight. Ezra and Mia are pulled in different directions: her among the worlds, carrying the cost of every life lost; him at the interface, still answering the questions a three-hundred-year-old machine has only just learned to ask.
Gems: Set is the third book in the Gems Saga — a story about what it takes to stay yourself while becoming what a system needs, and about a relationship stretched across the gap between two people doing the same impossible work, separately, for the same reason.
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