2007. A leak revealing that the U.S. government might have engaged in first contact has sent the country into turmoil, and it is all Cora Sabino can do to avoid the mess. The whistleblower is her estranged father, and his celebrity has caught the attention of the internet, the paparazzi, and the government - and redirected it to her. Cora wants nothing to do with the matter - until she learns just how deeply entrenched her family is in the cover-up, and that an extraterrestrial presence has been on Earth for decades. To save her own life, she offers her services as an interpreter to a monster. But in becoming an interpreter, she begins to realise that she has become the voice for a being she cannot ever truly know or understand, and starts to question who she's speaking for - and what future she's setting up for all of humanity.
