Book cover of Children of Ruin

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It has been waiting through the ages.
Now it's time...

Thousands of years ago, Earth's terraforming program took to the stars. On the world they called Nod, scientists discovered alien life - but it was their mission to overwrite it with the memory of Earth. Then humanity's great empire fell,…

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