From intergalactic space a ship enters the Dümain.
Bigger than anything ever seen before it strikes fear into the hearts of some, ambition in others. In a race to control it, the fractured government teeters on the brink of war.
An ancient creature, the last of her kind, joins forces with a criminal and a small boy. Each carries a secret of their own as they skirt the edges of known space, hiding from those hunting them.
The galaxy hangs in the balance of a figure in hiding, one more ancient than history itself.