When Barry Winchell is assigned to the Airborne Infantry at Ft. Campbell, Kentucky, he's thrown into a closed world of aggression, and extreme macho ethics. Then he falls unexpectedly in love with a local trans-gendered performer inciting anger, resentment, and finally violence, among his bigoted fellow recruits.

It is the year 2057, the sun is dying and mankind faces extinction. Earth's last hope rests with a courageous crew of eight men and women on a mission to ignite the fading star with a massive nuclear weapon. Deep into their voyage, out of radio contact with Earth, their mission begins to unravel and they find themselves fighting not only for their lives, but for the future of us all.

A banker with a talent for memorizing numbers is recruited by a mobster looking to get ahead. Money changes everything and a series of betrayals turns friends into enemies and family against family in this taut crime thriller.