First in a brand-new series of original novels, based on the hit television show: Star Trek: The Next Generation

1995: A mysterious creature destroys a Russian aircraft carrier - and just as mysteriously disappears...

And three hundred years later, Counselor Deanna Troi awakens in her quarters from a nightmare, a nightmare where she senses (and understands) the voices of the crew lost aboard that ship, a crew whose life-essences were somehow absorbed by the creature that destroyed their ship long ago.

Now, Picard must discover a way to communicate with the creature - or he and his crew will be similarly absorbed by the "ghost ship"!