Publisher's Synopsis
Nearly 1,500 years have passed since the Human race fled Gaia, Earth to the ancients, in an effort for survival and, with time, expansion among the stars. Through dwindling hopes, a mass collaboration brought Humanity back from the brink and not only did they survive, they thrived.The vestiges of the Human race formed the Gaian Interplanetary Alliance, the GIA, to continue their expansion, known as the Auctius, past their home solar system and beyond. Numerous advancements in seemingly radical areas of science such as terraformation, Human augmentation, stellar travel, and the creation of a quantum computer dubbed the Gnanimus help ferry Humanity into an interstellar era. With the knowledge of the Gnanimus and the introduction to alien technologies, from this dimension and beyond, Humanity grew by light years.In the midst of the Auctius and interspecies relations there is the story of Nachman Rosenblatt and his interdimensional partner, Sadie, who together are Arquis, Celestial private investigators. The pair have been just trying to do what Humanity has done for generations, survive. For the past five Gaian years Nachman has been outcast from the GIA which tends to make jobs, both independent and sanctioned, scarce for the duo. Now with a payable case from his former employer the team is hot on the trail of a group of escaped prisoners near the outward reaches of the known Celestial. Upon the capture of an escapee, Nachman and Sadie stumble upon something that not only opens old wounds from Nachman's past but could lead to the annihilation of the Celestial's future.
