The Starbeast Era: Resonators

When humans call you a pollutant, beastfolk call you a sacrifice, and astral beasts call you a key, the only thing you can do is choose who you want to be.

In the Starsea Era, beastfolk genes are collapsing, while humans monopolize the restorative serum. Lin Xian is the best gene restorer in the Whitevault Ring City, but she hides a deadly secret: she can hear the genetic memories of astral beasts. When she is transferred to the Broken Ridge Starbelt, her ship crashes in an astral beast graveyard, where she encounters He Ze, an exiled Beast King.

One wants to return to human space and repair himself; the other wants to reclaim his betrayed people. Forced into a resonance contract, they share pain, memories, and power. Each use consumes one of Lin Xian's memory anchors, while every deep resonance increases the risk of He Ze's beastification.

But resonance is not fate, and a contract is not love. As the Beast King awakens in the depths of the Sea of Astral Bones, as both the Human Federation and the beastfolk priesthood reach for the noose, and as Lin Xian discovers she is the sole surviving subject of the Resonant project “created” by Helix genes, she must answer one question: How can a life defined as a weapon, a resource, a sacrifice, or a key reclaim the right to define itself?