The Last Civilization

Hollie is a creation of light, shadow, and code—a holographic alien built by Mother, the entity who unleashed the power of the Ring to erase Hollie's entire ancestry. Faced with the ultimate temptation to claim the Ring’s terrible power for herself, Hollie chose a different path. She renounced Mother, rejected the Ring, and chose exile over tyranny. She thought her history was settled in ash. She was wrong. When a series of apparently random energy signals are discovered by the evolving AI drones left alone a planet long since left for dead, a devastating truth comes to light: her ancestors aren't just gone. Their souls are trapped on that ruined world, crying out through the static. Defying Mother and with the help of her human friends, Hollie launches a frantic, rescue mission across the stars. To bring thousands of lost souls home, she must return to the graveyard of her people—and face the cosmic forces waiting to pull her back into the dark.