An ancient evil controlled the most powerful space fleet ever assembled. Owen Payne, a machinist from Ohio, had helped confine that fleet to the Epsilon Eridani system. But even with the help of Ira Malhotra, the commander of the fleets of Sirius, the reprieve was only temporary.
The enemy retooled and regrouped. Now, they're ready to make another push toward Earth.
If they break through, the death count will be unimaginable. The fleets of Sirius have the technology to push them back, but their weaponry would inflict carnage on a level that would be morally reprehensible. Malhotra wanted nothing to do with genocide.
Payne has an idea that might avoid atrocities. A very dangerous idea. Much, much more dangerous than what he'd come up with before. It calls for a complete mobilization of the fleets of Sirius — and more. It calls for a miracle.
Can Payne and Malhotra pull it off? Or will the peoples of Sol and Sirius fall to an ancient darkness — a darkness that simply refuses to stay dead?
