Tom Calvano is a freelance project manager with a reputation for getting results for corporations and governments, but he's never been up against a challenge like this. From the depths of space, a deadly stellar-mass anomaly is hurtling toward Earth, threatening all of mankind with extinction. The Guardian, an ancient alien being who has watched over humanity for eons, has informed the U.S. president and other world leaders of the threat. Geophysicist, George Blocker, independently recognizes the threat to humanity after the earthquake that touched off the Asian tsunami caused a shift in the axial tilt of the Earth. But what could have caused such a powerful earthquake and its unusual tectonic activity? He and a few colleagues, fearing global panic, begin meeting in secrecy to confirm their calculations. The team has only seven years to develop the mechanism and hit the launch button before the anomaly consumes the Earth.