In Earth's alternate timeline, Aleksander Sevik chooses to run away from Earth when his grandfather dies of cancer. Joining a Russian Space Program, he leaves with his friends and enters the cosmos, only to become separated from them when the station is attacked by aliens. The First of The Bitter Suites gives an account of Alek and his attempt to find his friends again. Stuck between the moon and Earth, he discovers that there is more to history than what the world had thought. As self-proclaimed angels and wanton monsters try to bend Alek to their side, the young man must survive the fall of heaven, and accept that mankind fell long before that.