Two neutron stars capture each other in a gravitational dance that sets off an interstellar explosion 88 light years distant from the Sol-Earth system. To one astronomer's mind and calculations, that is too close and the resultant radiation storm is headed toward Earth at the speed of light. Either the radiation will strip Earth of its protective magnetic field or come close to killing every living thing on Earth. Fatimah Sorenson predicts this in her mostly ignored astronomy thesis. Her doctoral degrees in robotics and cellular regeneration are also ignored denying her any sponsorship and a chance to pursue further research. In a society where automation and the Seventeen top corporations control a worldwide dole funded by them and their new currency, the Uni, in a bid to control the masses and to maintain power, Lord Cadbury and his 17 give everyone a stipend, housing, food, healthcare, and a subsistence. Fatimah Sorenson keeps sending resumes until, suddenly, she receives a message to present her theories and ideas. Her potential benefactor and sponsor is a woman of 108 years. Gillian Louise Douglas, the legendary CIA officer, United States Marshal, and eidetic genius who realizes exactly what Fatimah Sorenson's patents and disguised descriptions conceal. Sorenson wants to build a new race of humans with immortal cells capable of surviving the two or three centuries of the pending radiation storm she has predicted. Clever as that might be, Gillian Douglas wonders if Fatimah Sorenson can restore her to youth. Meanwhile, a promise made decades before to Gillian Douglas by the mysterious Cecily Valence of the Hadoonhtami, the most advanced race in the multiverse, draws near to fulfillment. The benign Hadoo race, admittedly accomplished in everything but warfare, seek their Earth cousins as the deadly, hybrid warriors and strategists needed to prevent belligerent races from exporting their terror and genocide beyond their own galaxies. Gillian Douglas begins a new journey and quest to resurrect her dead lovers and metamorphose into a superior and higher being destined to become the first endeared and spouse of the the Hadoo leader, Cecily Valence.