Light years from earth lies the Hearth - a dark matter-fuelled birthplace of millions of planets. The descendants of a human colony ship have inhabited this place for more than a thousand years. But now something from outside has come to find them . . .

Light years from earth lies the Hearth - a dark matter-fuelled birthplace of millions of planets. The descendants of a human colony ship have inhabited this place for more than a thousand years. But now something from outside has come to find them . . .