In 2077, humanity is still listening for voices from the stars-and hearing nothing.
Dr. Aris Thorne, a veteran astrophysicist at the Kepler Deep Space Observatory, has spent decades searching for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence. The universe has answered only with silence. Until one night, an impossible signal appears-precise, powerful, and unlike anything ever recorded.
The signal, soon named Chronos, defies the laws of physics. It bends time, rewrites causality, and resists every known method of translation. As Thorne and his team struggle to understand it, they uncover a truth far more unsettling than alien contact: embedded within the transmission is a human voice-speaking from a distant future.