In the far future, a time when the sun’s radioactive expansion hasforced mankind to seek refuge in the deepest part of the ocean, and with littlehope of survival, the fate of the Cain family is inevitably and tragically tiedto that of our dying world. Stel Cain, the eternal optimist, has begun aperilous journey from the depths of the sea to the surface to intercept adeep-space probe, returned to earth with the location of an inhabitable planet,that mankind could escape to. But there is another Cain in the deep:Stel’s long-lost daughter Della, who has grown up to be a Hope Hunter,seeker and destroyer of all things that would instill in people a false sense ofhope, distractions from life’s grim reality. When Della hears of theprobe, the ultimate symbol of hope, she sets her courses to the surface as well,to destroy the beacon...and any who would seek to share its light.