The Dark Between the Stars is the eagerly awaited first book in The Saga of Shadows, a stand-alone 'next generation' trilogy set two decades after the end of the previous series.

The human race has expanded out among the stars, establishing colonies on numerous planets while independent gypsy clans, the Roamers, operate giant floating skymines in the clouds. On the planet Theroc, the capital of the human Confederation, humans live in a gigantic forest whose towering trees are all interconnected into a single mind. The Ildrians, a grand and ancient race of aliens, former rulers of the Spiral Arm, are connected by their own mental network called thism, but are unprepared for human ambitions.

As part of increasing collaboration between the Ildrian Empire and the human Confederation, a large ship goes off to explore what lies beyond the Spiral Arm. There it encounters a mysterious and ominous nebula, one so opaque that even starlight cannot penetrate it - one that, to the explorers! horror, begins to grow and expand.

Soon, the races of the Spiral Arm discover they are being terrorized by an evil so ancient that it has been forgotten... an entity so powerful that the very existence of all living things is being threatened.