When Val Anna Naruna vanishes in 1901, her parents believe she is dead, and they are unaware that her friend Taran had entrusted her with a secret stone. More than one hundred years later, Val Anna mysteriously reappears on the Auriga, a spacecraft buried deep beneath the Canaanite city of Hazor. Val Anna's stone holds the key to a destiny. The stones were one before they were broken. Then the War of Destroying Fire came, and the Ban followed. Now, 150,000 years later, the power that was divided and hidden is awakening. Its arrival threatens the Earth, fracturing time and space into countless dark worlds. In this sequel to scientists Seijung Ford and Hannah Aston join the covert Foundation Technologies International group on an expedition to the bottom of the Atlantic at a secret location in international waters. Though granted little explanation for the location or the presence of company paramilitaries, Ford and Aston soon discover the truth their corporate sponsors have been hiding from them all along.