It’s hard to be the ’good guy’ when you lead the local cell of the League, a terrorist organization. Gang warfare turns out to be the least of your worries when shadowy organizations start targeting your friends.

In a world where the class division is between those who live on land and those who live on water, Lorelei, daughter of the governor of the floating port city of Orleans, is taken aboard the the deadliest pirate ship in the world, The Summer Lyn.

In a small town Emergency Room on Christmas Night people begin flooding in with strange symptoms. Some are growing scales, others changing color, even floating. Its all the ER staff can do to help patients, while agents swarm the building.

The story of Cassidy, cam girl in modern-day SoCal; Paloma, Fulbright scholar in newly Westernized Prague; Jane, farm girl working at the FBI in DC during WWII. Each leaves Appalachia to find a new life, only to be pulled back to the land they know.

Interplanetary travel via the Hyperways are a norm but the technology enabling the system has far darker possibilities. A race against time and heart as the unthinkable approaches, a mass extinction event of our own creation.