A secret division of the American intelligence apparatus fights against mind-controlling slavers. When one of their own is compromised and captured, the agents of the division must take action before it is too late.

For xenobiologist Maddie Spencer, the universe is a place of endless unknowns and unfathomable complexity. But those that push the frontier of scientific discovery can never be sure that they will not discover something that will forever change who and what they are.

The promised future has arrived. Mankind has outgrown old Terra and lives peacefully among the stars. But when junior engineer Kyra Warner of the TSS Argo picks up the wrong item from an alien planet, she soon finds out that not everything in this universe is willing to coexist.