“From the first, I knew the Little Miss was a most wicked child.”At the manor of Navino, Agnes has devoted herself to raising a respectable young lady. Cici has fine clothes, an indulgent father, and more books than anyone could reasonably need. A little gratitude should not be beyond her.Instead, she questions everything. Why must the villagers labour for her family? Why should a king be obeyed? And why does the history in her father’s library bear so little resemblance to the country beyond its walls?Agnes has answers. Unfortunately, Cici insists on finding her own – from forbidden books and the impossible memories of a servant.To Agnes, these discoveries are proof of the girl’s growing delusions. To Cici, they offer glimpses of the truth – a truth that grows harder to bear the more she uncovers. What began as a disturbance in the schoolroom soon threatens the order of the estate, the kingdom, perhaps the world.Now, summoned before a mysterious tribunal, Agnes must account for the catastrophe that followed. She has come to condemn the girl she raised – but her testimony may reveal more than she intends.Darkly funny and unsettling, Celeste is a literary speculative novel about love, obedience, and the cost of trying to put the world right. The second novel in The Earthling Condition series, it can also be read as a standalone.

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Earth has fallen. The rulers wear human faces.One hundred years after Earth was claimed by an interstellar empire known as the Hegemony, humanity has settled into the uneasy rhythms of colonial life. Sofia Rian is a low-ranking clerk in the Earthling Welfare Office on the island city of Eveningstar - a woman of no particular consequence, content to keep her head down and get through the day.Then a positive pregnancy test changes everything. The father is not human.As Sofia navigates the terror and wonder of carrying the first known hybrid child, the fragile order around her begins to crack. A workers’ strike turns violent. People she trusts disappear. The rules that once kept her safe begin to change. And Sofia - who never wanted to matter, who only wanted a quiet life - discovers that under imperial rule the middle ground is only ever an illusion.For fans of Octavia Butler, Kazuo Ishiguro and Emily St John Mandel, Eveningstar is an unflinching debut about occupation, dignity, and resistance - the story of an ordinary woman carrying an extraordinary secret in a world that will not let her be ordinary any longer.

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