Captain Calhoun is dead - or is he? And who will command the new, improved Excalibur? The stunning, must-have conclusion to the most intense New Frontier saga yet! "He died heroically. All of us...should be so fortunate as to have that opportunity." So spoke Captain Mackenzie Calhoun - five minutes before the Starship Excalibur blew up, at the end of New Frontier no.8, Dark Allies. Through New Frontier no.9 and no.10, Calhoun's devastated crew endeavour to cope without him and to get on with their own shattered lives. Yet, unknown to them - or to Starfleet - Calhoun escaped the cataclysmic demise of his ship, only to find himself trapped on the primitive outback world of Yakaba. There he befriends Shula, a woman with the strange and inexplicable ability to summon rain for her parched and struggling community. Shula's powers, however, have made her a target for jealous and greedy enemies who will stop at nothing to seize control of her special gifts - or destroy them for ever. Marooned on a hostile world, Calhoun is drawn into a life-or-death struggle against implacable foes. In his absence, his former First Officer Shelby finds that her first command, the USS Exeter, is more of a challenge than she expected; and the rest of his scattered crew have problems of their own...