A medallion. A mysterious abduction. A ship that shouldn't exist.
When Burton is violently taken from his life as a repair technician on the distant colony of Neda, he finds himself aboard the enigmatic vessel Charon, renamed and repurposed by the calculating Captain Christopher for reasons beyond comprehension.
The medallion Burton has carried since childhood radiates with inexplicable energy when interfaced with the ship's systems, unlocking abilities he never knew he possessed. But this is no coincidence; in Christopher's cold eyes, Burton is merely a tool, a means to an end in a game spanning centuries and dimensions.
As reality bends around him, Burton forms an uneasy alliance with Lena, a defiant technopath with her scores to settle, and her mechanical companion, Harvey. Together, they discover that Charon harbors technologies capable of folding space itself and secrets that powerful forces would kill to obtain.
When smoke-like entities manifest throughout the ship, Burton must confront unsettling truths about his heritage and the medallion's true purpose. The boundaries between dimensions grow thin, and what lies beyond hungers for passage into our reality.
In this high-velocity fusion of space opera and cosmic horror, Burton races against time and physics to understand his role in an ancient conflict before the Charon's final collapse tears a hole in the universe itself, a hole from which nothing human will emerge.
Some doors were meant to stay sealed.