Ten years ago, the god Aries was defeated and the worlds of Earth and Purgatory at last knew peace. Through a combination of human science and the magic of Purgatory's gods, a new civilization has arisen across the solar the Alliance. For Liam Vanderbilt - saviour of two worlds - this has been a time of happy retirement with his wives and children.
But the arrival of an immense starship, carrying aboard members of the ancient civilization who built Purgatory two thousand years before, means Lia...