A Miracle of Rare Design

Journalist Xavier William Lennox becomes obsessed with the secretive rituals of the Fireflies, a gold-skinned alien culture on the planet Medina, and is tortured and banished when he gets too close to their truths. Determined to learn what they're hiding, he submits to grueling surgery that remakes his body in their image, the first of a string of transformations that carries him further from his own humanity with every mission. A Birthright Universe novel about the cost of understanding another species from the inside out.