Star pilot Rebecca Forti shipwrecks on Hardin-07, a remote planet on the edge of explored space.
Unable to call for help, Rebecca is forced to abandon her ship and seek refuge in a nearby ancient space colony.
However, the city of Futura is deserted, inhabited only by mechanized robots, and seems frozen in time, waiting…
What is Futura? Who built it? Who manages it, and where are its inhabitants?
The answers to these questions could have unimaginable consequences…
Futura is on the brink of collapse.
Its mad visionary and creator, Lawrence Mason, is now crushed by his own ego and bordering on insanity.
Rebecca, pregnant with Lawrence's child, is terrified and anxiously questions her own fate.
Meanwhile, the cruiser Heinlein relentlessly scours space, determined to hunt down the person responsible for the most devastating terrorist attack in history.