Dying

The first Selahns were promised centuries. No one promised them an ending. Nearly five hundred years after the events of In a Hundred Years, Jonah has become a legend, a liability, and the keeper of a secret town built for the descendants of the woman he loved. Lark is long dead, but her memory remains his sharpest conscience-and the one voice he cannot silence.
Across the Selahn world, elders vanish from public life. Commanders retire without farewell. Ceremonies are canceled. The oldest universities have gone underground, pursued by Association enforcers while searching for an answer no government can admit it needs. At the center of the tightening crisis stands the Association's formidable National Secretary-the HNIC-whose harmless title conceals authority over intelligence, diplomacy, disappearance, and the official memory of nations. Her investigation leads toward Jonah, his hidden family, and the concealed bodies of the Original Twelve. The Whole Count movement is rising. Old churches are reopening under Jesuit protection. Finite communities are no longer willing to accept fractional citizenship. And among the Selahns, a forbidden possibility is spreading from whispered corridors to public streets: They may not be enduring. They may be dying. To protect the children Lark left behind, Jonah must decide which history to betray-the one that made him powerful, or the one that made him human. Dying is a sweeping Black speculative thriller of love, lineage, political spectacle, sacred memory, and the terrifying cost of surviving too long. A sequel to In a Hundred Years, it asks what happens when a civilization built on endless time discovers that death has been waiting inside it all along.