Bored with his life as a farm hand, Storm accepts a request to be a messenger boy for a local astronomer. Little does he know his world will be blown apart when he reaches the Capital. Intercepted and befriended by a strange giant of a man who is ensconced under the nation's government buildings, he learns an awful truth--the world has just months before it falls under the magnetic pull of the Dark Star, the invisible binary twin to the sun.

Storm learns the resulting pole shift will change the face of the globe, causing mass devastation. But the Dark Star has swept the planet clean before without destroying all living things. While this time will be a little different it does not mean the end of all life. The powerful elites act on this knowledge.

Storm and his family and friends must negotiate the increasingly brutal security forces as well as teams of assassins acting for members of the elites if they are to survive. Because improbable as it seems, survival is still possible, as long as they are ready to fight...

The elites use advanced secret technologies to hide the intruder from outer space until they are safe in their sanctuaries. To control rebellion they create distractions and chaos: activating long planned for global conflict and economic collapse and ordering dissenters to be rounded up. The world as Storm knew it will never be the same again, but he is already adapting and changing...

For fans of Red Rising, Lucifer’s Hammer and On The Beach.