<p>When one of their closest allies disappears, without a trace and in impossible circumstances, the Maverick Heart crew is soon on the trail. But they're already at a disadvantage, for one of their own has gone missing too, leaving them with only the merest of clues to unravel the mystery.</p><p>The race is on to solve the baffling disappearances, running from the loneliest, coldest corners of space into the heart of human civilization. And beyond.</p><p>Now it's up to Vrick and the crew to find out who's pulling the strings and bring the lost home safely. If they can.</p><p>For their investigation soon reveals that they and their vanished friends are merely pawns in a vast and diabolical plot that threatens to tear through worlds across the Pan Galactum and across the walls of reality itself.</p>