Miguel Morgan awakens disoriented, alone, and afraid in a dark future beyond his imagining. After being rescued from stasis by a mysterious woman, he is rapidly swept into a world of clever machines, eternal beings, and desperate men in a story that plays out across a dangerous and vast desert country known as the Outfar. Mankind is scattered and diminished, civilization is all but forgotten, and terrors lurk in the shadows of a rugged and beautiful frontier. When his savior leaves him at a remote colony to embark on a mission of her own, Miguel tries to unravel the mystery of why he was placed in stasis and finds himself drawn into the strange lives of a last tribe of men. His fresh perspective calls the state of the colony into question, and he soon discovers that some secrets are best left buried in the desert—perhaps even his own.