When one of their closest allies disappears, without a trace and in impossible circumstances, the Maverick Heart crew is soon on the trail. But they're already at a disadvantage, for one of their own has gone missing too, leaving them with only the merest of clues to unravel the mystery.

The race is on to solve the baffling disappearances, running from the loneliest, coldest corners of space into the heart of human civilization. And beyond.

Now it's up to Vrick and the crew to find out who's pulling the strings and bring the lost home safely. If they can.

For their investigation soon reveals that they and their vanished friends are merely pawns in a vast and diabolical plot that threatens to tear through worlds across the Pan Galactum and across the walls of reality itself.