His family dead, his life devastated, former Homicide Detective Oscar Steele thinks of himself as "The Hollow Man", with nothing left to live for. But Deborah Geller, in charge of the impending launch of Generation Ship Destiny, has other plans for him. There is a saboteur aboard - and she wants Steele to find him. Paired with unlikely ally Summer Winn, Steele runs into trouble quickly. Events on both Destiny and Earth spiral out of control. Suddenly, the residents of Destiny watch the Earth below them erupt in a holocaust for the second time in thirty years. As desperate invaders approach to kill all aboard Destiny and take it for themselves, Deborah orders a last-ditch, premature launch to try and escape the Solar System before they arrive. And Oscar Steele has a decision to make. Take the last outbound shuttle to a devastated Earth--or stay behind and die with the rest.