In a world devastated by nuclear war with humanity on the edge of
extinction, aliens finally make contact. They rescue those humans they
can, keeping most survivors in suspended animation while the aliens
begin the slow process of rehabilitating the planet. When Lilith Iyapo
is "awakened," she finds that she has been chosen to revive her fellow
humans in small groups by first preparing them to meet the utterly
terrifying aliens, then training them to survive on the wilderness that
the planet has become. But the aliens cannot help humanity without
altering it forever.
Bonded to the aliens in ways no human has ever known, Lilith tries to
fight them even as her own species comes to fear and loathe her. A
stunning story of invasion and alien contact by one of science fiction's
finest writers.