Forty years ago, Aeash—an alternate Earth with a wildly different evolutionary path—collided with our world, changing everything. Now, humans and Aeashens cross dimensions, chasing new lives or thrilling escapes.

On Aeash, the sport of Five is everything. Millions watch. Thousands play. Only the elite reach the Premiere League and become legends.

All of this is new to Ulysses Oliver, a transplant from Earth who has arrived to teach English—and start his life over. His adult class is full of dreamers learning his language for work, travel, or opportunity.

One student catches his eye. A young woman hiding beneath a hoodie who is always alone. Always quiet. Her name is Vinta. She is Coinoie, a neglected and oppressed tribe of Aeash. And beneath her hoodie burns Fyre, an athlete who is going to change the sport of Five forever—or die trying.

Tender and blazing, fierce and heartfelt, this is the story of two people who felt they were less—until they found everything in each other. One impossible dream. One unbreakable love. One revolution that starts with a single Fyre.