Grace lost one prince but found another. To rescue Prince Ventar she must enter a place even her ascended friends fear to go. A place she will come to realise holds the key to the very fate of the Local Group of galaxies. Prince Camcietti must let her go and tread his own perilous path. A dark shadow is being cast over the galaxy - a shadow that may eclipse even the malignant depravity of the Zerot.

The ten-day war cannot be stopped. Preenasette will fall. The Zerot are ruthless and as unstoppable as time. For a game born of bloodlust, Birjjikk and her Cadre will initiate Armageddon on a planet whose people's worst crime is the inability to get out of her way. The teenage Prince who tried to save his world has been stopped. His brilliant plan in ruins. The Princess he returned from exile on an alien world called Earth must convince him to take up the fight again. But against this enemy, is it too little, too late?

After an audacious escape from Earth, the Vercetians - and some local friends - hurry home to save their own planet from the disaster about to befall it. The Zerot intend to seal the fate of another innocent race with the cruelest game in the galaxy. Young Prince Ventar has a plan, or almost, but he needs some extraordinary assistance from an ancient unascended race. He'll need even more help to make it home before the genocide game begins.

Fleeing the threat of civil war on her home world and a planetary genocide game played by an ancient and evil race, Princess Grace and her small band of refugees seek sanctuary on distant Earth. But their peaceful existence is shattered when one of her own betrays them. With Earth hanging in the balance, an unlikely hero comes forward to challenge the impossible odds.