A post-apocalyptic fantasy about war, faith, and waiting for space shuttles. In the city of Cape Canaveral, the royal establishment is steeped in excess, and science has been corrupted into a blood-soaked religion. When an outcast girl is captured by a self-styled prophet and warlord, she is thrust into his violent designs on the throne. As war nears, Aurora must decide, is she willing to become her captor's queen? What violence must she do, and at what cost? Then two strange lights appear in the sky. Have the miraculous shuttles of their forebears returned, or have their beliefs led them all to ruin?