Imagine a future that men and women can only dream of:  It is a time where a trillion people live under the Gentile rule of the Assembly on over a thousand inhabited worlds. A time where peace and stability have reigned unbroken for nearly twelve thousand years; a time where war and evil are merely ancient history.

Now imagine what happens when, on Flarholme - a Made World at the very edge of the Assembly - strange things begin to happen.  A girl sees an impossible creature, a stranger from Ancient Earth comes in answer to a troubling vision and people begin to say, do and think things that oppose everything the Assembly stands for.  And slowly, incredulously, a handful of men and women come to recognize the unthinkable: evil has returned and that, once  more it must be fought.