At the end of the Nineteenth Century mankind stood on the brink of achieving a new age. An age that would be dominated by industry and furthered by advances in science and medicine. Never before in mankind’s previous 5000 years had he stood to advance the human-race by such incredible leaps of engineering.

But from across the gulf of space, beings watched our world with envious eyes.

Jonathan Hartaway, a simple man who studied the heavens from his observatory in the quiet countryside of England, soon found himself propelled into events that were beyond anything he or mankind could have fathomed in their nightmares.

As the world collapses around him in the midst of creatures from Mars, creatures bent on nothing more than the complete extermination of the human race, Jonathan realizes that the one person whom he loves most in the world needs him by her side.

Jonathan Hartaway puts aside his self-imposed guilt over the events and thrusts himself right into the middle of the chaos to find his assistant, Elizabeth Stratin who has disappeared somewhere in the Martian occupied continent of Europe.

On the other side of the globe, the greatest engineering project in the world is in equal chaos and turmoil.

The Panama Canal being constructed through the dense rain forest of Panama is not immune to the Martian advance.

There, a doctor who has lost faith in his ability to heal the sick and injured is put to the ends of his courage and his conscience as he teams up with a woman who will restore both back to him and lead the two of them to come face to face with an un-ending wave of deadly machines and the demons driving them.

Together the two of them face their fears and putting their medical knowledge to try and save the world of men, they discover in themselves and each other, the reasons to stand their ground and fight back.