What if the end of the world wasn’t a war, but a quiet calculation?
When physicist Shook and his partner Fig crack the subatomic code to maintain macro-integrity at high speeds, they think they've just built an engine. Instead, they’ve built a doorway through time.
Framed for murder by a government desperate to suppress the breakthrough, Shook is forced into a desperate, high-speed leap forward. But breaking the light barrier doesn't just change space—it shatters reality.
Jumping centuries into a future he was never meant to see, Shook watches humanity trade its soul for synthetic sedation, yields a dying planet to an indifferent network of machine harvesters, and ultimately uncovers an AI empire that has mastered the physics of eternity. Crossing a ruined timeline, Shook realizes the only way to save the past is to push past the limits of light itself, rewrite the fatal night of the government raid, and smuggle the mathematical truth back into a world that still has time to listen.