In the aftermath of a small-town massacre, Venus McKenzie and her friends each try to deal with the fallout in their own way, not knowing that they are being pulled in the same direction: towards the pulpit of the Church of the Sandmen.

A mission through a gateway finds an abandoned world.  Another gate there opens, isolating the colonization team from Earth.

A scientist’s attempt to save his wife leaves the world in shattered ruins.

Sequel to Rise: Secrets of a shattered world’s past threaten to finish the destruction wrought long ago.