The Earth died as a result of nuclear winter when Jonathan Martinez was just a young boy growing up in Texas. Then the Paulani Dominion came, a species of seemingly benevolent aliens offering salvation and an escape from extinction. Jonathan's family took to the stars as refugees but over the years they have become separated and lost from one another.

Now Jonathan has learned that his wife has passed away on an alien world far from him and he has no news of his daughter's fate. Jonathan will risk everything to find her, crossing many worlds and facing serious dangers along the way all in a bid to protect the last family that is left to him.