Ruins

From the critically-acclaimed,bestselling author of The Light Piratecomes a sweepingdeeply resonant novel about an archeologist in search of an ancient artifact that could not only change her lifebut upend the story of civilization itself. Professor Ember Agni is a rising star in archeologytrying to balance an unfulfilling career in academia and a crumbling marriageall while pursuing her true passion: unearthing a lost empire that no one else believes existed. Just as she’s about to give up on the ambitious expedition she spent a decade trying to funda message arrives from overseas. A former student claims to have found something extraordinary–an artifact that hints at the forgotten world lying beneath history’s tidy surface. With vindication finally within reachEmber risks everything for the sake of discovery and undertakes an odyssey that will either make her name or ruin her. Driven by unwavering faith in her vision of the pastshe challenges the limits of her nationher colleaguesand herself in order to exhume the missing pieces of how humanity began. But as she journeys deep into an untouched wildernessin dogged pursuit of a dead civilizationshe collides with the wreckage of her own life. On the brink of either discovery or destructionEmber must choose who she wants to beand to what kind of world she wants to belong.