Discovering a sphere was only the beginning. Living with one is something else entirely... In the near future, much of the globe wages war against the virtaiyu: a high-tech alien race - and humanity's greatest threat. Like all seventeen-year-old males, Kaiba Cassidy prepares for the battlefront and struggles with leaving behind everything he has ever known. Simultaneously, Nassira Arujo works desperately in the Brazilian rainforest to keep her family's refugee camp safe, and Emily Sursten tries to convince herself that the bliss of Australia can last. Kaiba, Nassira and Emily have no idea...