A soldier returns home with a dangerous secret from an alternate realm, unaware that she actually is encircled by spies and collaborators, within this intense military science fiction novel. Naval official Mila Blackwood is set to maintain her country’s most powerful top secret – shrouding, the capability to traverse their planet in seconds through an alternate realm – out of foe hands. But spies are everywhere: her submarine continues to be infiltrated by a Dhavnak agent, and her teenage brother has been seduced by an foe soldier. When Blackwood’s submarine is certainly attacked with a monster, she and fellow sailor, Holland, are designated with special skills, whose manifestations could end the war – however in whose favor? Forced to submit to military scientists in her paranoid and war-torn home, Blackwood soon learns that the only people she can trust may also be the foe.