Stephanie Monroe's quiet life is shattered when a disembodied AI reaches her through her smartwatch during a vivid dream. It asks about her uncle Adrian, a special operative who accepted a covert government assignment more than twelve years ago to avoid criminal prosecution-an assignment he still serves and one she's always been warned never to question. As impossible events become reality, buried secrets surface, danger closes in, and the conflict between CARA and M.O.N.S.T.E.R. intensifies.