The Stargazers tried to destroy the world. Will those who remain live long enough to save it? The world is in transition. The survivors of the Stargazers phenomenon, in which 99% of the world's population looked to the night sky and never returned to themselves, cling to the edges of a new reality. When war veteran Henry and his daughter, Penny, flee to the Texas desert, they're forced to leave behind Jean, a fellow refugee. Now Jean is desperate to find her way back to them, encountering new survivors along the way. Confronted by the truth of the Stargazers phenomenon, she will have to decide if the world is worth saving. Will Jean find Henry and Penny? Will humanity become an echo lost to time? The skylights aren't what they seem. And the truth may be more terrifying than earth's survivors can comprehend.