ason Hunter and his friends are fugitives. Half the humanoid races in the galaxy are trying to capture him. The other half are trying to kill him. Everyone believes that when he joins the Hand of Osiris to the other nine talismans, the mysterious Hathor, the ancestor of all humanoid races, will return and bring peace to the galaxy. But what if everyone is wrong? With only the cryptic words of a disembodied old man and the rantings of an eccentric alien to guide them, Jason and his friends must stay one step ahead of their pursuers as he searches for the answer to this question: What will really happen when the talismans are all joined again, for the first time in over 800,000 years? The answer could determine the future of human civilization-or even if there is to be a future.