People are going missing in rural California. That might not make it onto August’s radar, but their sudden reappearance with tales of alien abduction sure does. It’s not just some wilderness bumpkins with too much moonshine in their bloodstream though, a US Airforce pilot had to ditch his plane in the wake of a close encounter and that’s much harder to ignore. Just what is going on in the desert? Can it really be something not of this world? Dragged into the investigation, August Watson expects to discover a rational explanation, but when one of his own team goes missing the stakes change and now nothing is going to stop him from uncovering the truth. If only it were that easy.