Technology is either a tool or a weapon, and when Varseen Clyme's extraordinary discovery falls into the Lord Commander's hands, it's the latter. Deep in the Sonoran desert, adversaries Rhet Dekk and Varseen Clyme forge an uneasy alliance to repair their damaged ships in hopes of escaping Earth and rejoining the battle raging in their faraway galaxy. However, to border patrol agent Dalton Hemingway, the stranded combatants are nothing less than a national threat... The earthbound space opera from the creators of Morning Star and Crush Depth continues! When the stars fell, war came to Earth.