Astronomer Dudley Bose observes the impossible: a star vanishes. The starship, the Second Chance, is dispatched to learn what has occurred and whether it represents a threat to the Intersolar Commonwealth.
Joshua Calvert, master of the spaceship "Lady Macbeth" travels into the farthest reaches of space in search of a rumored deity that might be able to stop the dead from rising up and taking possession of the living.
