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

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".