Evan Marshall has a target on his back the size of two galaxies.

On Earth, the hunt continues, but now there's a new player with their sights set on him. The most dangerous kind of player. One with nothing to lose.

A billion light years away, the Ascendant is heading where no star chart has ever mapped. A location so remote, so deliberately hidden, that the civilization who built it clearly never wanted it found.

The way in was dangerous. The way out may not exist.

And either way, things aren't going to get any easier from here.