People of Nyame. The Emissary - Zi Foster;Dwayne E Hackett

They escaped Earth to survive.

History followed them anyway.

The Umoja built a powerful interstellar society far from humanity's birthplace-free from the cycles of exploitation that once defined Earth. But when another human power discovers them, war erupts, threatening to drag them back into the same patterns they fled.

The conflict awakens something else.

An ancient, non-human intelligence-older than civilization, indifferent to morality-turns its gaze toward humanity once more. As rival factions fight for control, several individuals become unwilling conduits to this vast presence, culminating in the rise of an emissary tasked with speaking across an impossible divide.

The Emissary is a bold science-fiction novel about identity, memory, and the cost of survival-asking whether the future belongs to those who seize power, or to those who refuse to abandon who they are.