The onrushing Black Star was going to pull the Earth out of solar orbit and there was nothing anyone could do about it. Astronomers worldwide agreed that Earth had ten years before the Black Star dragged it into interstellar space. The President told the American public that he purposed to cover as much as possible of the United States with a cold-shielding composite. Homes, farms, ranches, they would all be protected from the minus 300 degree cold by the three-inch thick composite plates. Jeff Allen works for the governments most powerful agency. With the help of beautiful Tenaya, Jeff has to keep Americas enemies from stealing the cold fusion and composite secrets that allow the United States to survive in the frigid cold of deep space.