Do they get sleep? Or does sleep get them? After discovering a new garden world to call home for Earth's last survivors, Commander Elsa Venla finds her work isn’t done. The colonists are exposed to an unknown contagion which steals their minds as they sleep. They grow paranoid, aggressive, animalistic. Bitey. Venla isn’t immune. She starts to suspect her own crew is complicit in corrupting the colonization effort. This contagion isn't at all what it seems. Now she must use whatever tools available to wrest control of her people back and prevent this sickness from spreading to the stars…