Publisher's Synopsis
A hero of the Ember War lives...and he needs rescue from a prison planet.
Admiral Valdar lives, and it's up to Ely Hale and a small Crusade force to find him. They know he's on Takeni, where a desperate battle was fought to save the alien Dotari and now serves as their place of exile. Is Valdar is still there, or have they been baited into a Geist trap? The answer is on Takeni. While Ely searches for Valdar, the Geist grow ever closer to breaking Marc Ibarra on Earth. He holds the key the Geist need to find Malal. Once free, the evil alien will devour all intelligent life in the galaxy, and the Geist have found a particular vulnerability to Marc's defenses... The blood of heroes stains Takeni, and more blood will be shed before the mission ends.
