The network was supposed to protect them. Now it's their greatest vulnerability.
Six months after TJ's sacrifice, his brother Allen discovers fragments of his consciousness still trapped in the defensive network. Then the Qirs arrive with a warning: the Elder Xerathi are coming to harvest their children and corrupt the network into a weapon.
The crew of The Phoenix has eight months to find answers at Xerathia, the Hierarchy's prison world where billions of minds feed ancient predators. They must restore TJ's fragments into a hybrid consciousness that can resist the Elders' control.
But the Hierarchy is watching. And their perfect design has one fatal flaw.
Consciousness cannot be destroyed. Only transformed.
The storm is rising.
