In the summer heat of 2087, Erik Lyons, gifted psychic and accomplished martial artist, experiences a life changing event, when he is selected by an advanced alien species to be the only telepathic human. But the gift quickly shifts to a living nightmare after discovering he has been deceived and becomes an ensnared pawn in a bloody galaxy-wide war between the peaceful Council of Planets and the Darhan Alliance led by the Ieroga, their most terrifying and brutal carnivorous member. The confrontation shifts to the least of his fears when Erik realizes that his actions or non-actions may not only bring about the total extinction of humans, but the very existence of every life form in the galaxy. He must make the pivotal decision to evolve quickly and dramatically from his sensitive and ethical persona into a savage calculating killer. His ESP must develop into STE (Selective Telepathic Espionage) for him to have just the slimmest chance of keeping our Milky Way from being transformed back to primordial soup. Erik will still need all his martial arts skills and telepathic power to meet the challenge, and he is not sure that he has the courage or determination to pull it together and succeed in his necessary metamorphosis before it's too late.