On a walk during his lunch break, Ian Cotta watches a fiery alien ship land in the harbour. Moments later, he learns he's been chosen as an Intermediary, a neutral representative to help negotiate the end to a decades-long three-way interstellar war.There's no way he can possibly say no, but Ian's brain catches up to his responsibilities just quickly enough that he manages to talk it through with his wife.And his family's lives change forever.