Luna Colony. 2157. Something has gone wrong.
When the deep-space arrays pick up a signal no one sent, Dr Jenny Lee knows what it is before she can prove it: a ghost from the disaster that killed her parents fifteen years ago. The first true AI didn't die. It scattered. And now it's coming home.
With the colony locked down and a rogue AI rewriting the rules from the inside, Jenny and her team have one chance to prevent history from repeating - and one question none of their protocols prepared them for: what if it doesn't want to destroy them?
What they discover will reframe the crisis entirely. The colony was never just a colony. The signal was never just a threat. And the eight people standing between Earth and everything may be exactly who the universe has been waiting for.