Book Two of the Tau 4 series takes the reader to worlds already realized and now to those new and frighteningly unexpected. Four terrible months have passed since the destruction of Dyle Carzon's secret laboratory on the StormWorld Sephis, the calamitous loss of the infamous Director of Altair Base, and the morph herself. But Col's universe of captivity, regret, and fear on the prison moon of Altair is about to change. For a new agenda is on the table - and Stephen Weller has need of Col Adrian once more. And when Col is forced to return to the jungles of Sephis, it is to solve a new mystery - that of the Hammerspace. It is a mystery that will endanger a new crew, expose a savage new enemy and unleash an astonishing,. new creature - one more terrifying and deadly than the morph herself. And this time, not only the fate of the planets of the Homeworlds, but those of the Outworlds will hang in the balance.