The artifact draws the attention of Valene Blackwood, the one Empowered with a conscience. Valene’s gifts come at a price. She hears everything, everywhere, always. Kit’s ambition morphs into harnessing the object’s cosmic potential to mitigate the trauma Valene’s powers inflict on her. The city can’t afford to lose Valene and neither can Kit.

In love and running out of time, Kit unleashes the artifact’s full power, transforming her forever, as well as the battle over what is owed, and to who.