It is the near future and Armageddon has happened.
Sergeant Vincent Evimann, a decorated ex-serviceman with the elite First Infil Battalion, returns home to Port Coliseum to find it no better than the rest of the world. The Dust Engagements and the Great Oil War have taken their toll and created a wasteland. There is nothing here remaining for him except news of a family he had thought lost and Evimann sets off on a quest across the ruined country to discover the truth. His journey leads him to find both the bizarrely dangerous and the more noble remnants of a crumbling society. He may even discover love.
Meanwhile, the remnants of government and military try to understand the disturbing events caused by an unknown foe that are being reported across the land. As they struggle with these new dangers, in the depths of the capital's Wound Laboratories a driven surgeon is creating a unique and powerful entity the authorities think will bring a semblance of order back to the shattered world. Once set on a mission it will not stop and nothing will stand in its way until successful.
In Book One of the epic Hold a Candle to the Sun, both protagonists are set on an inevitable trajectory that is bound to end in collision.