The aliens aren't coming for Earth. They're coming for its water.Kenny, Kendall, and Kaehla Smith are triplets who couldn't be more different. Kenny is an outgoing Navy leader. Kendall is a quiet, thoughtful sailor who fears heights but discovers courage when his brother is injured. Kaehla is a brilliant, socially gifted flight attendant whose obsessive need for cleanliness is constantly challenged by her chaotic rescue cat.Despite their different lives, the three siblings have always found their way back to one another.Then Kaehla sees something impossible from an airplane window. A cloud suddenly explodes outward as if an invisible object has passed through it.Within days, strange spacecraft are detected entering Earth's solar system. Massive vessels appear above the oceans, and scientists discover something terrifying: the ships are extracting Earth's water, converting ocean moisture into vapor and harvesting it from the atmosphere.But humanity has been warned. For decades, an extraterrestrial civilization known as the Palladians has secretly lived among humans, quietly sharing knowledge about healing, peace, science, and the preservation of Earth. Now they finally reveal themselves to the Smith family.Their grandmother, Margie, isn't surprised. She's been telling the family for years that humanity isn't alone. And Margie has a secret of her own.Meanwhile, the Smith triplets discover that their family has been connected to the Earth's hidden Aquifer for generations. Their mysterious stepfather turns out to be a former military intelligence officer with a talent for explosives.As Earth's oceans begin disappearing, Kenny, Kendall, and Kaehla must combine military strategy, alien technology, family secrets, and powers they never knew they possessed.Because the enemy isn't trying to conquer Earth.They're trying to drain it dry.And if the triplets fail, humanity won't die in a war.It will die of thirst.
