The Hannaria Series continues with Adam Verin and Jernard narrating the second book in the series. After confronting Kressler and the EIP, Jernard is visited by an old friend requesting help to rescue his wife and children from a race of ruthless aliens called the Liozi. Following his resignation from the EIP, Adam's life is threatened by his own father and former colleagues who now consider him a traitor.

When a group of serial arsonists begins attacking locations on Hannaria, Jernard and his family are brought up on charges of treason and accused of being connected to the group's leader. While dodging questions with answers that could endanger their survival and making an attempt to escape the planet, Jernard tries to make connections to a set of similar attacks that happened on Earth in 2113--discovering the actual truth is worse than he ever expected.