"You must avoid the reflections," the Sender said. "Never look at yourself-or he may look back at you. He will scan the reflections of thousands of millions of worlds and he will find your face." They are the hunted. The lives of sixteen people, on four different worlds, begin to collide. As they seek for answers about their hunter, and why he pursues them, they uncover secrets about themselves and about the reflections that betray them. Their only hope is a desperate choice--but the choice carries a cost.