When a secretive team picks up Pararescueman Evan Black to augment a quick reaction force, he’s told they’re recovering a top-secret satellite. He discovers the egg shaped object is no satellite - it’s a ship, one not made by human hands.

Recruited into the program tasked with recovering the craft and reverse engineering the technology, there is only one rule: Attempting to disclose the truth about alien visitations will cost your life.

His charismatic mentor justifies the violence as the lesser evil, protecting humanity from a reality too terrifying to accept.

But is he protecting humanity, or sacrificing his own?

Hannah Townes is a journalist investigating a brutal murder in the DC suburbs. Evidence vanishes. Witnesses disappear. As she unravels the mystery, every thread she pulls cinches the noose around her own neck.

Given an unthinkable order, Evan must decide who to believe. The wrong choice will either take an innocent woman’s life and bury the truth forever, or unleash a catastrophe on the entire planet.