Weight of Years: The light is dying, the empire is carving, and she must choose which world is home

The light is almost out. And just as it dies, the world offers her the one thing she stopped letting herself want: a way home.

For four years, Maya Hartmann measured her life in percentages. Now she can count what's left in days.

The smartphone that made her a legend is dying, cracked, wounded, draining faster than she can ration it. Three kingdoms that agree on nothing have agreed on her: she is to be taken alive, the marvel kept burning forever, and there is no longer a single crown in the empire that will shelter her. As the Frankish world is carved into three at Verdun, Maya flees west with her husband, a dead commander's loyal men, and a spymaster who loves a few specific things badly, toward the seams of a breaking map, and toward the moment she has dreaded since the night she fell out of the sky.

The moment the light goes out for good.

And then, when the screen is almost black, when she has nothing left to count, the impossible: a way that might, just might, take her back. To her mother. Her century. The life that was stolen from her. Everything she lost.

Against everything she built.

The Weight of Years is the fourth and most emotional book in The Light From Tomorrow - a story about what remains when the miracle runs out, the unbearable arithmetic of a life remade, and a woman's final choice between the world she lost and the one she planted with her own hands. It will break your heart and mend it.

• The death of the light - the series' great clock finally runs to zero, in the most devastating scene Maren Valecourt has written.
• A father's voice - thirty seconds she has never let herself hear, saved for the very end.
• The choice that defines her - home, or the life she built; you will not be sure which she should choose.
• A legacy that outlives the miracle, and a final turn that opens the last book of the saga.

Begin the series free with Book One. By Book Four, you will not be able to look away.

The Weight of Years is Book Four of The Light From Tomorrow, a five-book time-travel adventure series by Maren Valecourt. The saga concludes in Book Five.

Published by Clarivance Press.