The USS Olympia, an Akira class cruiser has been redeployed from the Romulan Neutral Zone to investigate a series of disappearances along the frontier. It is up to Captain Talloc Hagen to try and avert a new threat from raising its head from deep beyond Deep Space Five

Imperial Captain Talloc Hagen stands on the lip of the abyss, the Terran Empire is collapsing around him and for the Betazoid officer his options are dwindling rapidly. Should he take the offer from the Alliance to abandon the cause of the oppressor, or will his oath of loyalty run him to ruin. And when his paths cross with an Andorian slave, where will his future lead?

In Chicago, there is an innocuous establishment known only as The Coven, those that visit, are always changed. For Emily Townsend, she thought it was just the killer new nightspot. She was right, for all the wrong reasons...