Economics professor Clay West has always explained the world through the lens of his profession. But after his girlfriend Karla takes Dying Wish—a drug that supposedly reveals the nature of reality moments before it claims your life—Clay is devastated. No amount of rationalization can explain Karla's actions. Distraught, Clay joins a mission into the dark emptiness of space where answers are promised to reside. But when the ship begins to malfunction, Clay and the surviving crew members suspect there's more to the mission than they've been told.

Humans have reached the stars. There is no evidence any other species survived its own sentience long enough to do the same. Until now, when the Magellanix deep-space scout Accipiter discovers the Artifact, a million-year-old alien construct resting in a dormant volcano on a faraway world.

Lee had expertise in different sciences and 24th-century tech due to learning machines that could transfer an expert's knowledge. He had the latest high-tech weapons. He had acquired the latest protective equipment. He was sixteen and got his great-grandfather's A.I., Anna, to find him a planet that had magic. His A.I. hacked a portal to take him there. He might have bitten off more than he could chew.

In Anthar, a radical experiment changes the course of history; a vital resource is destroyed, a planet disappears, and an ancient, sentient death is unknowingly awoken in the depths of space. In Nephia, the Augurs of the Realms gather for the first time in a century to discuss the dire warnings from God. But some whisper of the Ulmar – God’s ultimate warrior – prophesied to unite the world against annihilation. To restore balance and avoid war, an Antharian expedition team must journey to Nephia to retrieve a God Stone.

Dr. Allison Perez appears to have it all - a brilliant career in nanotechnology, a comfortable home, and the promise of a medical revolution on the horizon. Yet, beneath the surface, a sense of restlessness gnaws at her, her life reduced to a monotonous cycle of work and routine. But opening her heart to anything more since her brother died is too dangerous. Until everything changes when a sinister plot unfolds, threatening to seize control of her groundbreaking nanocytes, the very innovation she believed would benefit humanity.