Zokar Rizian is a cold-blooded murderer and a self-seeking scavenger. But in committing an unexpected act of friendship, he becomes an unlikely hero. Laura St James is just a pretty young girl trying, with little luck, to be just like everybody else. She does not consider herself a terrorist. But with one impulsive act, all that changes and she becomes an unlikely villain. These two just can't get it right. Things get a whole lot messier when they are forced into an uneasy alliance to protect a planet called Earth, that nobody else thinks is worth saving. The story begins with a dying soldier's confession of what he saw at Area 51.