The Brightness Between Us by Eliot Schrefer (Paperback)

In this sequel to The Darkness Outside Us, Stonewall Honor Book and New York Times bestseller Eliot Schrefer delivers another ambitious, genre-blending sci-fi novel and sweeping love story spanning thousands of years and the far reaches of space.

Seventeen years after the crash of the Coordinated Endeavor, Ambrose Cusk and Kodiak Celius have built a life together on the distant planet Minerva. Raising their teenage children, Owl and Yarrow, the family survives in a harsh frontier world filled with uncertainty and danger. Despite the challenges surrounding them, the bond they share has helped create a fragile sense of home.

But that stability begins to crack when they uncover signs that the greatest threat to their future may not come from the planet itself.

Far in the past, more than thirty thousand years earlier, Ambrose awakens on Earth to discover that the mission he once believed in was built on deception. Betrayed by the people he trusted most, he struggles to understand the true purpose behind the plans controlling his life. When he learns another space traveller may be trapped in the same nightmare, Ambrose faces a dangerous decision that could change everything.

Separated across time and space, two interconnected stories slowly reveal deeper truths about survival, humanity, and the ties binding these lives together. As hidden connections emerge, both timelines race toward discoveries that could determine not only their futures, but humanity’s as well.

Blending emotional romance, science fiction, mystery, and survival, this sequel expands the universe of The Darkness Outside Us with larger stakes, deeper questions, and powerful emotional depth.