An amazing Christian/Inspirational Romantic Sci-Fi Alone on a primitive planet light-years from Earth, bio-scientist Aric Lindquist believes she has been abandoned by SARC, the sponsor of her research assignment. In the five months since her assistant disappeared, she has struggled to survive Empusa III's beautiful but hostile environment. Is SARC punishing her because she accused them of breaking protocol in not safeguarding the indigenous humanoids? After a new assistant finally arrives, Aric's suspicions escalate.

Fail her mission and Earth's treaties will collapse. Succeed and she will never reconcile with her past. When Special Agent Eva Hilliard is sent to retrieve two fugitives from Xerxes IX, she realizes events have been set into motion that will fragment the known universe. Whether she succeeds or fails in her mission the costs to herself will be greater than she can imagine. Dark secrets will be exposed and her life irrevocably changed. Or even extinguished. Only the Xerxian known as Zahn sees through Eva's tough exterior. He perceives that her physical pain cannot compare with her lifelong...