London, 1896. When Jane Pendelton's father dies, he leaves her more than a modest inheritance - a signal from an ancient station in silent orbit above the Earth, and a bloodline it has waited generations to claim.
An implacable order believes it has already won this war. It has accounted for every variable a grieving scientist's daughter could throw at it.
It has not accounted for her.
A novel of Victorian intrigue and cosmic stakes, where the last inheritance anyone expects turns out to be the fate of a species.