As debate over human-induced climate change heats up, Mother Earth prepares to unleash her own chilling revenge. Volcanic winter.Adelaide psychic Astina curses her unreliable connection to spirit and longs to change her life. But to a handful of ancient alien refugees she is their once and future leader and she must continue the spiritual journey she has begun. With four male companions she represents the final chance to resurrect the Vilinum - five pyramids distributing energy from the universe - that will provide water purification and food production during the long dark years ahead. They search from the foothills of Adelaide to the Amazon basin, from the wilds of Siberia to the green fields of Italy, and from the Giza plateau to the remnants of a Caribbean island, contending not only with the ravages of a planet in turmoil, but with the agents of another ancient soul who seeks control of the Vilinum for himself.