A ring appears in the sky.

No one knows whether it is natural, artificial, divine, or alive.

Dr Shen is asked to help answer a question no government is willing to ask in public: what happens when the first sign of intelligence beyond Earth cannot be approached, touched, or understood - only seen?

Across the world, certainty begins to fail.

Scientists argue. Governments conceal. Faith gathers. And above them all, the sky remains open.

Silent.

Beautiful.

Watching.

Disclaimer

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, organisations, institutions, events, incidents, and situations are either products of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously.

Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, real organisations, institutions, events, or incidents is purely coincidental.