One Captain. One ship. One mission.The CSS Cesa and its crew have been drawn into a mystery. The people of the peaceful world of Sunna-Deste-Anne have disappeared. Their world empty with no trace of what happened to them.Thrown headlong into investigating the disappearance Captain Isia Marla and her crew are propelled into a battle for their survival. There is a malign presence preying on defenceless worlds and they will not stop there. The Cesa may very well have met its match.Far beyond any hope of reinforcement, the Cesa and its crew are on their own.The Confederacy is about to come face to face with its most formidable foe yet.