Her body is no longer her own. It is a garden for a god.

Dr. Elara Vance is the lone observer of the Veil Nebula, a scientist who thought she understood the laws of the universe. But when Xylo-Vaan, the Monarch of the Kael-Thax, phases through the living glass of her station, physics yields to biology. He hasn't come to study her; he has come to plant a dynasty.

Trapped within the gravity-well of the Aethelgard, Elara is subjected to a breeding ceremony.