Sylenn Jenfsen continues to balance the alien living in her mind with the genetic alterations that make her a Descendant. The War for the planet Alluvia continues, but Sylenn is determined to find a better way to fight ... and finish it.
Jerell Graig has agreed to work for the Descendants to publish their deeds for the world to know. He soon learns that the Descendants are anything but the remote figures of planetary defense he's always believed them to be.
Things are changing for the Descendants and the people of Alluvia, and change is seldom easy. The War has endured for millennia, but it must come to an end. The time of secrecy is over, but what will the truth do to those set in their ways?