It began with an anomaly in an academic text book that Leira Orta found: an errant star in the Celestial Constellation that wasn't supposed to be there, flickering in and out of existence every ten years, growing larger with each leap. Then her co-worker was killed to protect the information and she was blamed. Now the Blades of Oa are after her and that can mean only one thing: they want her dead, too. But why the secrecy? What's the importance of the star? And why are people dying?