Exiled, broke, and drowning in cheap whiskey, John MacAlister is sick of his robot's lectures about the past. But the past won't stay buried.

When a shady contractor offers John a simple job—recover critical data from the Revelator, a research vessel lost in hyperspace for over a year—he takes it. Anything beats Alvis's disappointed silences.

But the job is already compromised. Ruthless scrapjackers have boarded the derelict first, and inside its fractured hull lurks something far worse. The Revelator is fractured, its dimensions twisting into shifting realities and spectral horrors that threaten the sanity of anyone on board.

Teaming up with Anika, a disgraced UniSec operative with her own demons, John and Alvis must fight through scavengers and nightmare realities to reach the data. If they can't escape with their minds intact, the Revelator will collapse into a singularity and take them with it.