Vidas Sheng has been a man traveling without a soul ever since God, or at least what he assumed was God, stopped talking to him. Leaving the ministry behind, he has spent five years traveling from colony world to colony world, doing odd jobs, and trying to learn the truth about the voices in his head. Now, his search has brought him to Earth, where he begins to find his answers -- answers that both terrify and thrill him; answers that could cost him his sanity ... or even his life.