They were coming. It wasn't so much the sound that revealed them. It was the subtle vibration of the ground beneath his feet, like the percussion of a distant explosion. It was their march. The dead tread of stone against sand. A ghostly gait of menace. Alone in a desert world...a world he once called home, Zak is now a damaged man. Reckless in his battle against the creatures that destroyed his family, he roams under the glare of the two suns, seeing phantoms - seeing Aimee. Five years had passed since Aimee Patterson left the man she loved. For five long years she traveled the path of life, always waiting - always looking to the stars, knowing, hoping, that one day he would return for her. And today was that day...