Bajor is in flames. The corridors of Terok Nor echo with the sounds of battle. It is the end of the Cardassian occupation - and the beginning of the greatest epic adventure in the saga of Deep Space Nine . . .
Six years later, with the Federation losing ground in its war against the Dominion, the galaxy's greatest smugglers - including the beautiful and enigmatic Vash - rendezvous on Deep Space Nine. Their objective: a fabled lost Orb of the Prophets unlike any other, rumoured to be the key to unlocking a second wormhole in Bajoran space - a second celestial temple.
Almost immediately, mysterious events plague the station: Odo arrests Quark for murder; Jake and Nog lead Chief O'Brien to an eerie holosuite in a section of the station that's not on any schematic; and a Cardassian scientist whom even the Obsidian Order once feared makes an unexpected appearance. With all those events tied to a never-before-told story of the Cardassian withdrawal, Captain Benjamin Sisko faces the most dangerous challenge of his career: unless he can uncover the secret of the lost Orb, what began with the fall of Terok Nor will end with the destruction of Deep Space Nine . . . or worse.
