Following their harrowing mission in the first Titan novel TAKING WING in which they were thrust into the heart of war-torn Romulan Empire, Captain Riker and the starship Titan, together with a task force of former foes, join forces to investigate an eighty-year mystery involving a strange offshoot of humanity known as the Neyel, introduced in the authors' best-selling LOST ERA novel, THE SUNDERED. Catapulted to a distant neighbouring galaxy, the task force of Klingons and Romulans is devastated by forces that have apparently already brought about the destruction of the Neyel civilization. Titan must learn what really became of the Neyel before the force that felled them sets its sights on the Federation.