An off-world attack levels the city as a prelude to war, and a lone survivor is raised from the ruins to find her simple life turned to ashes. A pilot must fight hard to save his shipmates from a faceless enemy, while a master spy uses all his skill to find an elusive assassin. The President must hold together the military alliance. An intelligent computer program aspires to be more. A reclusive scientist makes the most important technological discovery in a hundred years, and a young couple must learn to love each other light years apart. All the while the League of Planets, an organization representing the thirteen interstellar nations unknowingly fosters a climate of fear and political intrigue...Author AJ Lowell's dynamic imagination brings to life the astounding world of the late twenty-third century, in book one of this fascinating and ground-breaking New series...