Trapped in the Meridian Institute, Alex Reeves believes she's a reckless climber haunted by her friend's death. Jordan Nash thinks he's a surgeon paralyzed by failure. But when they experience impossible memory bleed between sessions, they discover their trauma is manufactured—and their minds are being harvested.
As they navigate the Kintsugi Garden's virtual sanctuary and scale the oil platform's steel bones during a Category 4 storm, they uncover Marcus Chen's horrifying the Institute isn't healing minds—it's erasing them. Every memory, every skill, every piece of who they are is being sold to the highest bidder.
With their identities unraveling, Alex and Jordan must choose between escape or revolution. But to restore hundreds of stolen minds, one of them must sacrifice a fundamental part of themselves. Can broken pieces become something new when the system is designed to keep them controlled?