Earth's first off-world colony on Zhinu, twenty-five light years away and established more than a century earlier in 2235 AD, has mysteriously gone silent. Probes have identified small remnant communities, but the capital with its thousands of colonists has become a ghost town. Macpherson Yenko, famed yet controversial quantum physicist, joins the hazardous rescue mission to the remote colony . . . and finds himself uncovering the deadly truth that threatens the extinction of humanity itself.

Ian Miller grew up north of Brisbane on Australia's east coast. He is the author of the Emissary of the Oppressed trilogy-Arboretum (2018), Serpent Bearer (2019), and Sanctum (2019)-and the popular Christian living books Rediscovering the Supernatural (2017), Here Am I; Send Me (2018), and The Lost Message of the End Times (2021). Ian currently lives in Fall Branch, Tennessee, with his wife, Christine.