Next Step

When you're a child of two worlds and are faced with choosing between them, where does love fit into the equation?

**This short story takes place after the conclusion of The Aerling Series and contains spoilers!**

Conner Parker is as happy as anyone else that the war between the Aerlings and Sentinels is over, but how does he choose between his birth parents and the family who raised him? How does he choose between the home he knows and the world he's supposed to belong to? And what about the neighbor he's been secretly in love with? There's a chance to stay and a possibility of love, but it requires a big leap of faith.