"Keep an eye out. Your neighbor or co-worker could very well be part of the Jovian presence here on Earth." — DECLASSIFIED MEMORANDUM · EYES ONLY
In the dead of night, over the high desert, military helicopters give chase to something running — fast, fluid, barely human. An orb descends. A sonic pulse. What the soldiers pull from the scorched trench will set everything in motion. A body. But not entirely human.
Air Force geneticist Dr. Clara Metzinger is called from her grieving daughter's side to analyze the charred remains. What she finds in the DNA — a double deletion of the CCR5 genome, a breeding mutation no natural selection could produce — unravels everything she thought she knew about the world.
When a Keeper-interfaced Colonel triggers a mass shooting on base and Clara's daughter Sara falls into a catatonic state — her mind hijacked by an unseen force — Clara is given one impossible choice: join the classified operation to hunt the Spectre, or lose her daughter forever. The clock is already running.