He had the Power to Unleash Cosmic Death! In the third in the EPPIE nominated Shadow Gods Saga, Tanard, a renegade officer formerly in the service of the Sherll Combine, on his way to a prison planet escapes and vows vengeance on the worlds of the combine. An agent of the enemy Paleans recruits Tanard to weaken the Combine by raiding a key ally, the worlds of Kaleen, home of the mysterious brotherhood of Wanders. First Scout Terrllss-rr, an officer in the Combine fleet and a Wanderer himself, must locate Tanard's support base before the Wanderers rise up and unleash the terrible power of cosmic Death in retaliation for the assault on their worlds. Then Terr meets Tenna, who is everything he has looked for in a woman. Soon the two are passionately in love. But when Teena discovers that Terr used the Wanderers' devastating power of cosmic Death to interrogate prisoners, she rejects him. Heart and mind in turmoil, Terr must carry out one last desperate mission under the shadow of Death, to find and destroy Tanard's base, risking everything, even the future of the Combine, in a mad gamble to win back the woman he loves.