July, 1947: a craft of indeterminate origin crashes near Roswell, New Mexico. The United States Army transports the wreckage and the bodies of several extraterrestrial beings to Wright Field near Dayton, Ohio. Doctors and scientists examine them, pronounce the creatures dead, and place them in cryogenic storage.

Decades later, one wakes, angrier than hell, and seeks revenge...

Air Force officer and researcher Adam Keller keeps people at a distance. His psychic ability to sense the thoughts and emotions of others makes friendships difficult. Relationships? Forget it.

But when a desperate, telepathic voice demands rescue, dark thoughts of death threaten to overwhelm Adam. Then he meets a woman whose attraction to him-and his to her-quiets, if not silences, the voice. The catch? Risk his heart and experience the emotions he fears.

Skeptical programmer Lisa Stark wants nothing more than to finish her years-long project, a subliminal messaging software program. Then Adam discovers the source of the voice plaguing him: an imprisoned extraterrestrial thought dead for decades.

The key to freeing the being and silencing the voice: Lisa's software. The problem: someone wants it badly enough to kill for it. With Adam's help, Lisa races to finish her program while evading the unknown killer, but the alien's psychic powers grow stronger, and more deadly...