ALL THE DISTANCE BETWEEN

BOOK TWO: ALL THE DISTANCE BETWEEN

The signal answered. Now comes the part nobody warned her about: waiting.

Years have passed since Meridian first caught the pulse from 61 Virginis, and the distance hasn't gotten any shorter. Every question Lena sends back takes almost fifty-six years to come home. She's learned to live inside that waiting the way other people live inside a marriage, for better or worse, one decision at a time.

New crew join her now. Dr. Adrienne Coste, a xenolinguist who reads meaning into silence the same way Lena reads it into light. Ravi and Elif, each carrying their own reasons for being this far from Earth. Together they start to realize that decoding the signal was never a matter of translation. It's a negotiation, with something on the other end that may already understand human beings better than human beings understand themselves.

Daan is still carrying the same stone he picked up in book one, and it hasn't gotten any lighter. Lena is starting to wonder if some distances were never meant to close. Only to be lived with.

If you love:

• Middle books that deepen the stakes instead of stalling for time
• First contact stories that treat the alien intelligence as genuinely alien, not a human in a costume
• Character arcs that let grief sit in the room instead of resolving it too fast
• The kind of quiet, devastating turn a reader doesn't see coming until it's already happened

...then All the Distance Between will not let you go. Book two of three in the Meridian Sequence.