<b>Essun&apos;s missing daughter grows more powerful every day, and her choices may destroy the world in this "magnificent" Hugo Award winner and <i>NYT </i>Notable Book. (NPR)</b><br /><br />The season of endings grows darker, as civilization fades into the long cold night.<br /><br />Essun -- once Damaya, once Syenite, now avenger -- has found shelter, but not her daughter. Instead there is Alabaster Tenring, destroyer of the world, with a request. But if Essun does what he asks, it would seal the fate of the Stillness forever.<br /><br /> Far away, her daughter Nassun is growing in power -- and her choices will break the world.<br /><br />N. K. Jemisin&apos;s award winning trilogy continues in the sequel to <i>The Fifth Season.</i>