The release date for the English version of 'Elder Race' by
Adrian Tchaikovsky is Nov 2021. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Adrian Tchaikovsky's Elder Race is about a junior anthropologist on a far-off world who has vowed to save the inhabitants in order to defeat an invincible enemy.
The queen's humble fourth daughter, Lynesse, is constantly in the way.
However, a demon is terrorizing the area. Now that she is an adult (though not quite), she realizes that the only way to save her people is to call upon the alliance between her family and the Elder Sorcerer who has lived in the nearby tower for the entirety of her people's history (though none in recent memory has approached it).
However, Elder Nyr isn't a sorcerer, and his scientific training informs him the threat can't be a demon, therefore he can't help.