Julia Evans, billionairess owner of Event Horizon, has for 15 years been
the power behind England's economic renaissance -- but now she's in
trouble. With her husband missing, and rival companies suddenly claiming
to have acquired a technology impossibly superior to anything on Earth,
she has no time to take notice of a single flower delivered anonymously.
But this flower possesses genes millions of years in advance of any
terrestrial DNA. Is it a cryptic alien message, or a poignant farewell
token from her husband?
One man might discover its origin -- but Greg Mandel will not be alone
in his desperate search. And, as they both now discover, simply being
first in the race isn't nearly good enough when the Nano Flower begins
to bloom.