In an age where spaceships traverse the sky like their water-borne brethren of ages past, humanity lives in fear. Ghouls live in the dark and await the time the human race drops its guard. Spacefaring society lies locked in a cold war with the Ghouls, dreading the time they attack and wipe out humanity. This is not a story about that war. The crew of the spaceship Descent is on a mission it thinks is an average case of data retrieval. The hull of the Moreau hides things more sinister: human experimentation and cross breeding with the inhuman. Among the carnage cowers a child. Dr. Risa Magee...