Having escaped AEtheria, Aral and Rex take refuge on Cthonia near the impact site of AEtheria’s power plant. At the same time, a team of armed Cthonian scouts sets out to recover their dead from the destruction. Among them, the AEtherian refugee Maire Himmel offers her knowledge of AEtheria to identify remnants of the destroyed power plant. Upon her arrival, though, Rex recognizes Maire as his mother, who was forced to leave him with a foster father sixteen years before. The Wreckage of the Past is book #5 from Vertical World, an EPIC Press series, a division of ABDO.