FROM MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER JASPER T. SCOTTThey are not from Earth-yet they rule it from the shadows.When Aldric Vale, a lone freelancer for the Interstellar Concord, follows a mysterious signal to an obscure star system, he expects to find a dead outpost-not a thriving world of eight billion people. The inhabitants call it Earth.By rights, the planet should have rejoined the Concord centuries ago. Instead, its existence was buried by a cabal of immortal elites who use Earth as their private paradise, while its people remain oblivious.After a deadly encounter cripples his ship, Aldric is stranded. Trapped on a world that isn't supposed to exist, he must infiltrate the cabal to escape-and expose the truth.Then he meets Lena Hart, a fearless journalist chasing clues she never should have found.Protecting her forces Aldric to make an impossible choice: free an entire world of unwitting slaves... or save the one woman who has made this forbidden planet feel like home.