Foster and Eddie take over a TV station at gunpoint to get the message out to the world about the alien invasion.

Cade Foster wakes up in a dirty alley and soon discovers strange posters that advertise Human-Gua cooperation.

Foster poses as a gunman to probe the Gua infiltration of organized crime.

Quatrain 46, Century 9: "In the City of Fountains, blood spills between families of disrepute / Seek an alliance with the steed / As the enemy makes ready for battle".

Joshua is put on trial and must defend himself against charges that he is a human sympathizer and a traitor to the Gua.

An alien experiment involving bare knuckle fighters draws Cade Foster and an old prison friend to enter a boxing competition.

Quatrain 63, Century 9: "In a city risen from blue grey ash, gladiators vie for blood stained glory / The fabric of man undergoes lethal alchemy / A patron of his own destruction".

Cade finds himself in a secret government facility where he is told his mission to fight the Gua is being observed. Suspecting a hoax, he attempts to reveal the Gua in the facility.

Cade investigates a series of disappearances of young women with help from a romantic fiction writer whose sister is the latest to vanish.

Quatrain 21, Century 8: "On the fields of revolution / Where England's traitor king runneth / Passion's dew is stolen from opulence / The undercroft keeps the salve of enemy wounds".

The death of a murderer and a Nostradamus quatrain lead Cade and Eddie to an amusement park in search of another pocket dimension.

Quatrain 32, century 1: "Through a threshold of light the savage land spits youth most murderous / Amid machines that amuse / Comes a reckoning for the man twice blessed".

Eddie must take on the aliens at his high school reunion when he discovers his friends are being kidnapped and interrogated by the Gua.

In a college town, teens have been dying of aneurisms during attempts at having sex.

Quatrain 66, Century 7: "Where the waters are contained, nature's course is obstructed / And youth imprisoned by devil's lightning / Whose use shall tame the rivals' ardor".

Wounded while fleeing the police, Cade hijacks a car and forces the driver to take him home with her.

Quatrain 29, Century 7: "Three rivers amidst iron wrought / Barren ground shall be sowed once more / The hunter and the hunted are one / When shadows descend on the twice blessed man".

When a losing small town high school football team is suddenly vying for the state championship, Cade poses as a college football recruiter to investigate.

Quatrain 19, Century 11: Where the good river runs north, young fortunes are reversed in mock battle / Enslavement takes myriad forms / The key to them all is control".

When Cade is hired to steal an item, it becomes a life and death fight for survival.

Quatrain 29, century 4: "The weapon will fall upon cities unless thieves deliver humanity from woe / The enemy of triumph is intellect / For faculties failure requires sense anew".

Working in a subway tunnel, a jackhammer operator discovers the body of a travel writer encased in a concrete wall, She is alive and hasn't aged, even though the wall was constructed fifty years before.

Quatrain 19 Century 4: "A maiden cut aloft from humanity / Locked in a coffin of stone / Her resurrection a clue for the man twice blessed / Till the fate of her soul has been sealed".

Treachery is afoot amongst the acolytes on Earth and Joshua is enlisted to ferret out the traitors.

Cade suspects an alien influence while investigating a casino on a Native American reservation.

Quatrain 43, century 9: "In the woods of Winchala a cimmis lights the flame of affliction / Elders set the course / To choose wrongly will mean woe".

Cade infiltrates a Red Flag competition at West Point military academy, where choice candidates are groomed for government leadership.

Quatrain 18, Century 10: "The town will not ring its cracked bell for the hero has gone astray / The crimson banner lures the one and the many / With each victory so will victory undo".

After nearly dying in a hit and run accident, a woman begins spouting quatrains every time she sees a bright light.

Quatrain 4, Century 9: "She will rise from the dead with words of fortune on her lips / For one in need of purpose / A dispatch to the twice blessed man".

Cade is led to a group of empaths with the ability to influence the thoughts of others. While investigating, he begins to realize the group is under the covert control of a murderous alien.

Quatrain 23, Century 3: "The two-sighted will meet death in sleep / Purged from the nightmare of a hidden enemy / Barricades protect spurious sleep / And the spectre is lanced with a common blade".

Cade travels to a small town in Wyoming that is being terrorized by a motorcycle gang called The Apostles.

Quatrain 54, Century 7: "Iron horses blaze a vengeful trail / The first of many to follow / Their method must be chartered / Or liberty will fall".

An astronomer friend of Eddie's has proof of a meteor coming through a wormhole, but is murdered by a Gua agent before he can send it to Eddie. He sent a copy to a U.S. Senator who denies receiving the package.

Quatrain 42, Century 5: "When the sun bursts forth at night / The life of a starwatcher is lost / But the truth revealed in the heavens / Is carried to a high magistrate".

Cade travels to an island to search for a man who has contacted them, saying that he has escaped an alien experiment. Too late, Eddie realizes it is a trap.

Quatrain 99, Century 1: "Heed the call to the island of commerce / Cut be watchful of footsteps that lead unto battle / Look to the light to guide thee / The hacking blade has a double edge".