Boone and Lili investigate a small Amish town after several of its citizens mysteriously die.
When Lili's shuttle is stolen by a friend whose mission to Mars was cancelled, Boone, without breaking orders to find the shuttle for the Taelons, has to help the resistance make the most of the stolen shuttle.
Boone is caught in the middle of his double life when his old flame comes back in his life claiming to be working against the companions.
The Skrills have been bioengineered on the Earth to be a weapon for the humans who assist the Companions. A Skrill from the first generation infests a bioengineer who goes underground, bent on freeing all Skrills from the oppression of the Companions.
Boone investigates a serial killer programmed with a CVI who tried to kill Da'an while enacting an ancient Taelon myth of good conquering evil.
Boone encounters Julie, a suicidal young woman with artificial limbs as hands, who is being used by a religious leader as a miracle when her hands are regenerated by Taelon technology.
Several soldiers who have volunteered to train in Taelon Interdimensional flight have instead been the victims of strange experiments - some have disappeared all together. A high ranking officer kidnaps Da'an in an attempt to have his men released.
Boone attempts to track his wife's murderer. He is determined to find out if it was the Taelon companion Da'an who ordered her death to get Boone to work for the companions or if it was the resistance that killed her, securing Boone as the resistance's eyes and ears within the mists of the companions.
At resistance headquarters, Boone meets two molecular biologists, Sahjit Jinnah and his fiancee Rayna Armitraj, who are studying the alien probe captured after it wreaked havoc on an Amish community. A power surge causes Rayna to cut off the top of the probe, which responds by dematerializing her. Unaware of the situation, Sahjit and Boone discuss with Doors and Augur the probe's purpose, recalling its ability to replicate butterflies into killers, launching the resistance into battle with the probe that may be studying Earth.
Sandoval's CVI is degenerating. Dr. Belman works to restore his CVI and save his life. Sandoval, free from his CVI, escapes to reunite with his wife, only to put her life in danger. Boone learns that Sandoval's CVI contained information about the Taelon's mission on earth, and tries to save Sandoval's life.
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