WHEN GAELAN KELLY RETURNS FROM WAR, physically and emotionally scarred, he tries to piece a normal life back together. But the horrors of war couldn't prepare him for the terror he discovers, thrust into a world he never knew existed. Dealing with the trauma of combat and plagued by nightmares of a monster that shouldn't exist, Gaelan finds himself embroiled in a battle to protect humanity even as he struggles to preserve his own. He fought a war of men. Now he fights a war for mankind. But Gaelan's greatest war will be within.