Five centuries from now, humanity owns the stars - or so it believes. The galaxy is mapped, trade lanes hum with traffic, and human colonies dot countless worlds. There's just one problem: no-one has ever found proof that we're not alone. When Crizz is assigned to a lonely orbital station above a backwater mining planet, she expects boredom, routine, and too much time to think. Instead, she finds malfunctioning systems, missing data, and a station that seems determined to keep its secrets buried. Her only ally is Sutter, a battle-hardened veteran who trusts experience over imagination - and has no patience for talk of monsters. But as the mining operation begins to fail and accidents pile up, Crizz can't shake the feeling that something is watching from the planet below. Something ancient. Something furious. And something that was never human. Out there, beyond the edge of known space, the greatest discovery in human history may already have found us.
