YOU HAD ONE JOB .... Something really bad is about to happen. It will start at Mount Rainier, but it's going to be big, bigger than anything ever before. The most evil force ever known-older than the universe-will soon be unleashed on Earth. Quaru has been buried for centuries. Buried alive ... with nothing but time to figure out how to get out. Then his guard makes a mistake. And in a fierce explosion of rock and ash, the ancient evil is loose .... Once He consumes a planet, and brings it into His universe, He can enslave those sentient beings He despises so much, and make them do His bidding. Shadou, the friendly but forgetful guard, must return Quaru to his mountain prison. But he needs help. And for that, he turns to Elle Redfern, snarky American teenager and keeper of a secret talent .... On a dystopian landscape of ash and desolation, a small band of shaken survivors led by Shadou and Elle set out on a collision course with the most powerful entity imaginable .... We'll have one shot to break into that firewall and discover His weakness. You are the only being on this planet capable of such a feat. And that's just the beginning of a multi-volume epic of Earth and space, reluctance and redemption, duty and sacrifice ...