
Continuing the Deep Space Nine saga-an original novel from New York Times bestselling author David R George III! At the end of 2385 in a significant shift of its goals from military back to exploratory Starfleet sent Captain Benjamin Sisko & the crew of the USS Robinson on an extended mission into the Gamma Quadrant Tasked with a yearlong assignment to travel unknown regions they set out to fulfill the heart of Starfleet's charter to explore strange new worlds & to seek out new life & new civilizations But now three months into the mission their first contact with an alien species comes in the form of an unprovoked attack on the Robinson With the ship's crew suddenly incapacitated seventy-eight of the 1300 aboard are abducted-including Sisko's daughter Rebecca But Rebecca had already been kidnapped years earlier by a Bajoran religious zealot part of a sect believing that her birth fulfilled the prophecy of the arrival of the Infant Avatar Does her disappearance now have anything to do with the harrowing events of the past? & for what purposes have these enemies taken Sisko's daughter & the rest of the missing?