Continuing the Deep Space Nine saga--an original novel from New
York Times bestselling author David R. George III!
At the end of 2385, in a significant shift of its goals from military
back to exploratory, Starfleet sent Captain Benjamin Sisko and the crew
of the U.S.S. Robinson on an extended mission into the Gamma Quadrant.
Tasked with a yearlong assignment to travel unknown regions, they set
out to fulfill the heart of Starfleet's charter: to explore strange new
worlds, and to seek out new life and new civilizations.
But now three months into the mission, their first contact with an alien
species comes in the form of an unprovoked attack on the Robinson.
With the ship's crew suddenly incapacitated, seventy-eight of the 1,300
aboard are abducted--including Sisko's daughter, Rebecca. But Rebecca
had already been kidnapped years earlier by a Bajoran religious zealot,
part of a sect believing that her birth fulfilled the prophecy of the
arrival of the Infant Avatar. Does her disappearance now have anything
to do with the harrowing events of the past? And for what purposes have
these enemies taken Sisko's daughter and the rest of the missing?