Conor Stasik is battered, infected, and far from home. He has left the sea-world of Maberrya and the ambush of the Resistance leaders with little hope, saddled with guilt for the atrocities he has committed and separated from his closest ally, Wendy Sjustrom. Yet he can't waste time feeling sorry for himself. Enemies are closing in fast and will offer little mercy. He finds himself in a race to turn the fleet's attention away from the Second Kalak War and stop Parin from unleashing the Lokani Virus on Earth for his bloody Harvest, all while suffering the effects of the psychosis-inducing virus himself. It won't be easy. After all, who knows what horrors the mad god hides beyond the veil of his altered reality?