Hardcover | 480 pages

The #1New York Timesbestseller!

From the #1New York Timesbestselling author of the Reckoners series, the Mistborn trilogy, and the Stormlight Archive comes the second book in an epic series about a girl with a secret in a dangerous world at war for humanitys future.

All her life, Spensas dreamed of becoming a pilot and proving herself a hero like her father. She made it to the sky, but the truths she learned there were crushing. The rumors of her fathers cowardice are truehe deserted his Flight during battle against the Krell. Worse, though, he turned against his team and attacked them.

Spensa is sure that theres more to the story. And shes sure that whatever happened to her father that day could happen to her. When she made it outside the protective shell of her planet, she heard the starsand what they revealed to her was terrifying. Everything Spensa has been taught about her world is a lie.

Humankind has always celebrated heros, but who defines what a hero is? Could humanity be the evil the galaxy needs to be protected from? Spensa is determined to find out, but each answer she discovers reveals a dozen new questions: about the war, about her enemies, and even, perhaps, about Spensa herself.

But Spensa also discovered a few other things about herselfand shell travel to the end of the galaxy to save humankind if she needs to.

Sanderson delivers a cinematic adventure that explores the defining aspects of the individual versus the society. Fans of Sandersonwill not be disappointed.SLJ

It is impossible to turn the pages fast enough.Booklist

Hes simply a brilliant writer. Period.Patrick Rothfuss, author of theNew York TimesbestsellerThe Name of the Wind,on Brandon Sanderson.