This fast moving story finds Maggie Kiefer and Bull McCloud meeting on the far edge of the Galaxy pursuing different bad guys, but found there was more to a scam artist and a kidnapped CEO than they expected. They team up to unravel a Galaxy-wide conspiracy that would have destroyed the Alliance. Pirates come close stopping Maggie but her superior technology was too much for the pirates.

Two intergalactic space travelers are marooned on Earth for 3,000 years. One of the travelers manipulated the thoughts of humans which became entertainment but changed human history by altering a gene in a young boy. Communications with the humans evolved and became possible. Three teens on a class field trip into the desert discovered the gateway to the space ship. An American oil company discovered a huge oil deposit and what appeared as man made structures deep under the desert in an area that was the forbidden Empty Quarter. The Kingdom of Syban Arabia came under attack from unknowns and...