An original full-length novel set in the Halo universe and based on the
New York Times bestselling video game series!Molly Patel was only seven
years old when the alien alliance known as the Covenant destroyed her
homeworld and killed her family. As one of the few to escape the
glassing of Paris IV, and despite the United Nations Space Command
winning the war on behalf of humanity, Molly never forgot how much she
had lost. Nine years later, when her adoptive parents--research
scientists specializing in ancient Forerunner technology--are called to
the mysterious and wondrous place known as Onyx, Molly vehemently
objects. It's not so much that Molly's concerned about relocating to
inside a spherical construct the diameter of an entire solar system, but
the fact that she also has to live alongside members of the same alien
species that murdered her family. And when the Servants of the Abiding
Truth--a violent ex-Covenant sect under the guidance of the notorious
Pale Blade--somehow makes its way inside this supposedly impregnable
sphere, Molly is now forced to consider if she and her new parents have
made a terrible and fatal mistake in coming here....