It should have only been a wrap-up—the final details they needed to assure themselves the trouble was over. But secrets left alone for too long tend to warp while no one’s watching. When the numbers didn't add up, that was only the start of their problems. The five members of the Supremacy hierarchy who arranged Project 32 are dying. Reyer and Vas are forced to work with their former enemies to try to uncover the truth behind the xeno threat before their only sources of information are destroyed. The threads aren’t simply unraveling; they’re becoming tangled.