Caleb Mitchell gave up everything to protect his house. Shunned by friends and family for abandoning the pacifist values of their religious beliefs, abandoned from the love of his life, he left his homeworld of Canaan to go to the Commonwealth Armed service Academy on the planet and teach to battle in the looming battle against the implacable alien risk of the Tahni Imperium. Whenever a teaching mission with a team of cadets winds up caught in the middle of among the most severe battles from the battle, Cal and his fellow college students are officially announced dead.

That’s when their war really begins. Recruited for a top-secret special operations unit, Cal and his friends undergo experimental and dangerous physical augmentation that becomes them into supersoldiers, designed to consider the battle behind enemy lines and put worries of God into an alien society who thinks their Emperor is God personified.

Now Caleb is asked to sacrifice his extremely humanity to protect his people. However when Canaan itself is threatened with the Tahni, will he throw away his career and risk everything to save the individuals who transformed their backs on him?