The loneliness of deep time weighs on Emari, an immortal member of a legendary galactic civilization. She resurrects an old love, a human named Raymond Tans, recruiting him to find out what happened to Earth. But nothing is what it appears. For either of them. Far away beyond the edge of the galaxy something waits for them, but to get there they will all have to face their personal demons, and Emari has so many. What they find will change them and...