The first murder in outer space. An experiment unfinished. Love lost and found. Follow a young woman at a Midwestern college, a vengeful lab assistant on a space station, and a pair of investigators way out of their league as they all try to navigate loss, betrayal, and a menacing new threat to every person on Earth. In this epic sci-fi space opera factions vie for control of nothing less than the future of humankind. To win, they'll rely on their wits, their instincts, and each other. And lasers.