Thrown out of Evigone by the Lords of Wuminger, the Tower of Panadawn and its avatars must find a new way to study the life of the artificial constellation. But first they have to get their human colleague back. Dumped in a desert on Earth, James Stone wakes up in a laboratory. In his blood is an alien virus and in his head they've discovered an alien city. Before he can get back to Panadawn, to Evigone and before the scientists drill into his brain, there's the small matter of the US army to evade.