Spensa's life as a pilot for the Defiant Self-Defense Forces is anything but ordinary. This girl became one of the best fighters in the human enclave of Scatter and saved her people from extermination by the Krell - aliens who held people captive for decades. She then traveled light years away as an undercover spy to infiltrate the Supremacy, a predatory galactic alliance bent on dominating all sentient life. The Supremacy began a galaxy-wide war, and its main weapon is the Delvers, powerful ancient beings capable of destroying in the blink of an eye. entire planetary systems. The only way to unravel the mystery of the Delvers, one of the greatest mysteries of the Universe, and have a chance to win, is to penetrate “nowhere,” into space from which few have yet managed to return.