Two reluctant allies. One impossible enemy. And a hunt that may turn them into the hunted.
Two years after riots shook the galaxy, Kondja dreams of hopping careers so she can protect animals instead of fighting criminals and wannabe terrorists?but a distress call from a university changes everything.
Mui-xe has spent his life running from madmen eager to exploit his abilities as the galaxy's first human-alien hybrid. In the aftermath of the riots, he's determined to hunt down the one responsible. When that hunt brings him into Kondja's path, the two reluctantly join forces, chasing their last lead to a seemingly empty planet.
What they find is worse than anything they could have imagined: a psychic parasite mutilating long-dead alien corpses for sustenance, now in an unholy alliance with the very man they're hunting. It is a harvester. And it hungers for them.
