Humankind might have won the fight, but a new threat looms bigger than ever before… Earth’s military have halted the Lanky advance and chased their boats out of the solar program, but also for CDC official Andrew Grayson, the battle feels anything but won.

On Mars, the grinding duty of eliminating the twenty-meter-tall alien invaders from their burrows underground is wearing down troops and devices at an alarming price. And for the rest of the extrasolar colonies, the risk of a Lanky strike is about Factors of Impact ever present. Earth’s video game changer? New advanced boats and weapons, made to hunt and eliminate Lankies and place humanity’s militaries on equal footing with their formidable foes.

Andrew and his wife, Halley, both now burdened with order responsibilities and responsible for more lives than just their own, are once more in humanity’s vanguard as they plan this new phase in the war. However the Lankies possess their own agenda…and in war, the enemy doesn’t usually wait until you are ready. As Andrew is certainly once again plunged in to the chaos and violence of war with an unyielding species, he is compelled to confront the toll this endless conflict is taking on them all, and the high price of survival…no matter what.