They said it was sacred. She knew it was survival.
When a young woman is abducted into a ritualized alien trafficking system, her body becomes a battleground between worship and violation, biology and control. Fragmented, but lucid, she refuses the drugs meant to erase her pain. She remembers everything.
Through dark corridors of exploitation, mind-altering technologies, and forbidden knowledge, she forges unbreakable bonds with other captives—human and not. Together, they resist in the only ways left: breath by breath, name by name, memory by memory.
Years later, she returns to Earth changed—scarred but alive. Now, in a quiet garden no one else knows how to tend, she plants what was never meant to bloom. Not a story of clean redemption, but of raw, sacred reclamation.
Visceral. Lyrical. Haunting.
For readers of Annihilation, The Handmaid’s Tale, and Room.