When legions of monstrous creatures started rising from the sea, a war began that would take millions of lives and consume humanity's resources for years on end. On the verge of defeat, the forces defending mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes to pilot a legendary but obsolete robot from the past. Together, they stand as mankind's last hope against the apocalypse.

Alex Irvine's novel A Scattering of Jades won the Crawford Award for Best New Writer. He also won awards for Best New Novel from Locus Magazine and The International Horror Guild and was a finalist for the Campbell Award for Best New Writer. He is an acclaimed writer of novelizations including Transformers Exodus, Iron Man: Virus, and Pacific Rim, which won the Scribe Award for Best Adapted Novel.