They journeyed across the void in search of a perfect world. Instead, they unleashed the ultimate terror ... Commander Derek Rain and the science team aboard the experimental starship Dragonfly launch themselves 180 light years through space to scout the remote exoplanet Draconis IV, expecting a virgin world ripe for colonization. What they find instead is a horror beyond comprehension: a dead world littered with corpses. Human corpses. What's more, a crewmember swears she recognizes one of the dead, but before she can prove it, the body disappears. Soon more corpses vanish. Back on Earth, a plague of violence erupts, and survivors' accounts share one disturbing detail ... the attackers are deceased friends and family members. As darkness descends on Draconis IV, an unseen assassin begins picking off Derek's crew one by one. Now they must fend off a shadow killer long enough to discover just what they unleashed—before an army of bloodthirsty ghouls lays waste to their home world.