AWA Agent Philus Grady is sent on a clandestine investigation of a terraformed planet suspected of being the cause of growing hostilities between the CORE Navy and the Allied Worlds. Grady's unique training uncovers the planet's amazing secret of a repressed truth that will alter history, a truth that almost gets him killed. In a race against time and enemy ships, Grady has to expose the CORE's secret, but will the news spark the war they all fear is coming.