Far in the future, 60,000 light-years from Earth, a loose confederacy of Terran exiles are locked in battle with the enigmatic Protoss and the ruthless Zerg Swarm. Each species struggles to ensure its own survival among the stars in a war that will herald the beginning of mankind's greatest chapter - or foretell its violent, bloody end. Bhekar Ro: a bleak, backwater world on the fringe of the Terran Dominion, where every day is a struggle to survive...

Set in the universe of the popular video game, an official tie-in novel describes how the sudden restoration of the mysterious zerg planet reignites hostility between the protoss and the terrans and could change the fate of the galaxy.