Jacob, Alice Valent and their oldest friends come face to face with the Order of Eden in a new way as a world of innocents comes under threat. The Spinward Fringe series is carried forward as a story about reunions, reinvention and rivalries unfold. The war with the Order of Eden heats up as allies begin to rally and a new battlefront opens.

The rallying cry that brought so many people to the fight is taken up again: Deploy. Dominate. Disappear.