The Switch family and its growing Clowder think they have years before Earth’s invasion. They are wrong. Some hunt the 12 sleeping Mothers without knowing they have already risen. Others are betrayed. The Chinese rush to complete their underground cities. America fights and falls as the Internet turns on humanity. Conspiracy theories thrive as the world goes dark. The Mother Company thrives in impure hands. Sheaths suck electricity from hosts. Hordes are grown in wey-vats. Born hungry. Alien orchids are regrown. Ripening children for the Feast. Desperate battles are fought across the globe as histories are rewritten. Parents are possessed. A skin covers Botswana. Another at Pine Gap in Australia has become sentient. Once the walls of an alien prison, millions of years old, it speaks for the first time and befriends a little girl. The Human Resistence drives into the desert looking for refuge. Fend Rings around their necks. Warned by a talking dog. Hybrids ascend. Are killed and reborn. Truths without solutions are found in the stars. Traitors turn. The Oversoul speaks. Signature Ships fly. Dax Ilif disappears within his own conscienceness. To visit other worlds. Or to die. Quantum Masters mumble apologies in the cosmos as the Darkness spreads. The Neverending War continues. A new hero arises. Unwilling. Angry. She gathers her band. Too late they realise there is more than one Enemy. What was thought to be the end is just the beginning. To survive they must fight. Forever.