From award-winning "Star Trek," "Twilight Zone," and "Stargate" writer David Bennett Carren comes a startling vision of a dark tomorrow. In the not-too-distant future, Earth is a harsh world controlled by the all-powerful Nummular Corporation. Human beings exist in a bitter environment without love or hope. People toil long hours in vast, dangerous factories and live in slums terrorized by gangs of rapists and murderers. Law enforcement agencies are more concerned with repression than with maintaining law and order. Abbie Parker cannot believe that things could get any worse ... until the marauders in gray appear from the sea. They raid the complex where Abbie lives and kidnap her and 39 other women. Spirited away across the sea to a strange floating city, Abbie and her fellow captives must battle a ruthless enemy to begin the long road toward freeing human society from Nummular's iron grip. The odds seem hopeless, because there is no power on Earth that can help her. Except for the power of love....