Poe wasn't expecting to find life on Mars. The many rovers sent up and the satellite data sent back home assured him - and the rest of mankind - that there was none. His job was simple: figure out how to colonize Mars. As an antiradiation engineer, he was a part of a team in charge of building the terraforming equipment on the cold, red, dusty planet. But when the construction base of a new green house dome is mangled and destroyed, Poe decides to take matters into his own hands. Slipping out beyond the protective barriers of the headquarters, Poe ventures into unknown territory for answers. What he finds is beyond all rational thought. But rational or not, what he has found has seized his soul.