Mabus attempts to control the minds of Foster, Eddie, Jordan and Joshua in order to fulfill the requirements necessary to initiate the Second Wave.

Foster travels to the future to locate the Hammer, a Gua weapon that has the power to determine the fate of humankind. But he discovers that the Resistance has crumbled and his counterpart has lost hope.

Foster encounters Xevallah, the mysterious stranger who rescued him from the Gua when he was a child. Xevellah teaches Foster the essential wisdom of forgiveness and prepares him for the final battle with the Gua.

Foster and Eddie follow an Omega quatrain which leads them to a crash site. Foster and Joshua square off to recover an alien warhead equal in power to ten nuclear bombs.

Victory for the Gua seems close, as Mabus capotures Foster. Could an extraterrestrial revelation free Jordan and destroy Mabus?

Foster informs the Generals of the Raven Nation that Mabus is using Jordan Radcliffe's body as a host.

Foster must stop the aliens from destroying the world's computer systems and Mabus from occupying human bodies, including his new love's.

Foster is injected with Gua DNA and, as the process of transformation progresses, Jordan and Eddie face the agonizing prospect of having to kill Foster in order to save the planet.

Jordan is ambushed by the Gua at the Radcliffe Foundation annual ball, where she learns the shocking truth about her late father's demise.

After Foster experiences a series of nightmares, he visits a hypnotherapist friendly to the Raven Nation and is led back into a childhood he has forgotten, including a suppressed encounter with the Gua.

Eddie and Jordan join an archaeology dig looking for Thor's Hammer and discover a Gua presence looking for the powerful weapon, which claims Foster as its first victim.

Foster and Jordan are saved from a Gua bomb by an email sent to Eddie by an ill ten-year-old girl. Jordan discovers that Mabus has made a psychic connection the girl.

When Mabus dissolves the Gua Assembly, his military leaders are concerned that he is launching the second wave too early. They hatch a plan to assassinate him, with the help of Cade Foster.

One of the Raven Nation operatives disappears near the small town of Hope. When Jordan and Foster investigate, they discover that the townspeople are hiding a terrible secret.

Quatrain 28, Century 3: "Tainted streams flow into fields of stone as the vanguard rises from hope / On a path of least obstruction, the evil one is crowned".

A Gua assassin is sent out to kill what appear to be random victims. But with Joshua observing events, Foster is determined to find out the truth behind the incidents.

Quatrain 72, Century 5: "Hallowed eyes burned through the line to the fifth in colonies of old / Malevolence awaits a perfect vision as four makes five for apocalypse".

Eddie checks into a mental asylum in the hope of rescuing a judge who shares the institution with other people who believe that the Earth is being overrun by aliens.

Quatrain 92, Century 8: "The mighty shall be laid low, impaled on a fine honed sword of truth / A voice of justice is stilled as nightmares take earthly form".

Foster and Jordan go undercover in a Chicago police station in order to find documents that allegedly prove Cade Foster's innocence in his wife's murder.

Quatrain 77, Century 9: "Redemption is offered by a woman of scarlet tor the twice blessed to seek out / Enter the belly of the beast and become one".

Foster investigates an alien experiment that will allow the Gua to transfer their consciousness without having to use husks.

Quatrain 73, Century 6: "A daughter of war meets the gallows when darkness spirit takes flight / In the land of the Eye of the Stag, savior and devil comes together as one".

Foster discovers Joshua locked away on a quantum pocket where he is forced to attempt the same task over and over again as punishment for helping Foster.

Quatrain 83, Century 7: "The traitor sits in a hidden world, waiting for the man twice blessed / Joined in desperate moments to push the rock over the peak of time".

While investigating a biological research facility, Foster is exposed to a lethal airborne virus and must risk his life in order to prevent the virus from spreading.

Quatrain 77, Century 9: "In the arsenal of an Emerald City, the smallest of creation becomes great / Horses four will trumpet the end, born on a devil's breath".

Raven Nation is a resistance group that fashions themselves after the ethos of Cade Foster and his significance as a key in defeating the Gua. Jordan Radcliffe becomes Cade's most trusted ally within the group.

Quatrain 45, Century 10: "The man twice blessed shall seek adherents / A dispatch soars on wings of lightning / A path to the catacombs brings stratagem into question".

Jordan Radcliffe joins Cade and Eddie to fight the aliens. The Gua make a clone of Cade.

Quatrain 12, Century 4: "The Brodde Nation will swiftly rise on the fortnight of its own prophesy / The scholar who solves the great riddle points the way to the blood stained globe".